>pv i oney in Poultry and Squabs 




Published by FRANK FOY 

Price Ten Cents : . Des Moines, Iowa 



QUESTIONS AN1> ANSWERS 

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Q. How many express companies can you ship by? 



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A. United States, American. Adams, Southern Pacific and Wells-Fargo ex- 
press companies. 

Q. What is meant by pairs, trios and pens of fowls? 

A. A pair consists of one male and one female; a trio of one male and two 
females; a pen of one male and four to ten females, as you may like. 

Q. What are your terms? 

A. My terms are: Cash must accompany all orders; nothing sent C. O. D. 
Send money by draft, express money order, postoffice money order or registered 
letter. 

Q. Do you guarantee the safe arrival of books and all other packages sent 
by mail? I 

A. No; unless they are sent by registered mail, which will cost but ten cents 
additional above the regular postage. It is very seldom that anything is lost, yet 
it sometimes occurs. Several books or boxes of medicine can be sent in one 
package unless the package weighs more than four pounds. Registering a pack- 
age costs you but ten cents extra; then it is absolutely safe. 

Q. How many fertile eggs do you guarantee in a sitting? 

A. If there are less than eight fertile eggs in a sitting of fifteen, I will dupli- 
cate your order at one-half the price of a single sitting. When eggs are ordered 
by the hundred for incubators and the incubator price is paid, I do not agree to 
duplicate the order at half price, but will only do what I think is right. 

Q. Could you get a cheaper express rate if I should send you the amount? 

A. There is just one rate, whether paid in advance or when received. 

Q. How far can you ship eggs and have them hatch? 

A. To all parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico. 

Q. How do you pack eggs for shipment? 

A. I pack eggs in new baskets made especially for my use, in the best pos- 
sible manner, so they may be carried to any part of the world. A single sitting 
weighs about four pounds; two sittings six and one-half pounds. 

Q. How do you ship birds? 

A. I ship all birds in very light, strong coops, and they comply with the 
express companies' requirements to get lowest rates. 
' VQ. What goes with an incubator? 

A. Everything that is necessary for operation, except eggs aad oil — egg 
testers, thermometers, egg trays and complete directions. 

Q. Have you any agents? 

A. No. My margin of profit is so very small that I cannot afford to have 
agents. If I had agents I would have to sell my machines at a higher price. 
Hardware or implement dealers who act as agents usually make from $5.00 to 
$<;.00 on each machine they sell. By buying direct from the manufacturers you 
save the middleman's profit. My catalogue is my only salesman. I offer to the 
public the best incubators and brooders and pure bred poultry at the lowest 
price that it is possible to produce them. 

Q. Do you make special machines for hatching duck and turkey eggs? 

A. No. My regular machines are used and will hatch duck and turkey eggs 
just as well as a special machine and in the trays the hen eggs are hatched in. 

Q. Is it necessary to fill the machine full of eggs, or can a less number than 
rated capacity be hatched? 

A. One and two hundred egg machines will hatch one dozen or more eggs 
just as well as if the machine was filled to its rated capacity. The largest 
machines are the most profitable to buy. 

Q. What is meant by double and single mating system, and what is the 
difference? 

A. Double mating is the system of using two matings to produce birds of 
one variety, one mating being to produce the exhibition males and the other the 
exhibition females. This is practiced by some breeders of some parti-colored 
varieties. Single mating is the mating of standard colored birds in both sexes, 
together with the expectation of producing both females and male of standard 
or exhibition color. • * 



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Introducing Myself 











When any one begins to do business with a stranger he likes to know 
something about the man he is dealing with. Sometimes I think it is hardly 
necessary for me to introduce myself to the public, because I have been in 
business so many years that it seems I ought to be pretty well known by this 
time. This is what I think when I get to feeling proud of the business I have 
built up. I have sold eggs and poultry to more than one hundred thousand 
different people in my life. This seems like a pretty big crowd but when I 
remember that we are beginning to talk about one hundred million people 
in this country I see right away that I must get acquainted with a lot more 
people before I know all of them. A hundred thousand people is just one in 
one thousand, so it seems I haven't got around yet. For every one with 
■whom I have done business there are nine hundred and ninety-nine with 
whom I have not done business. When I think of this I think maybe I had 
better say a word or two about myself. 

I don't need to say that I must have satisfied the people I ha've been deal- 
ing with or I wouldn't be in business now. I have sold eggs or poultry or in- 
cubators to people in about every county in the United States and in a good 
many of these counties I have customers in every school district. If I had 
not been pretty square in my dealings I would have dropped out of sight a 
good many years ago. I am prouder of the way my business grows year 
after year than of an> thing else in my experience. It shows me that the 
people with whom I deal tell their friends about me and get them for custo- 
mers. 

This catalogue is just a plain matter-of-fact story about my business. I 
might have hired some one to tell a lot of pretty stories but I want this cata- 
logue to mean ME to every one who gets it. I have written it out just as I 
would talk to a man who wanted some of my poultry or eggs. I really think 
I can write a pretty good catalogue. At least there are poultry men in this 
country who follow right along after my style in getting up their catalogues. 

This doesn't worry me any. I started out to become the leading poultry- 
man of this country and I have built up the largest business of the kind in 
this country. % 

I am not going to leave this without, giving some proofs. In this book I 
publish a few of the hundreds of letters I have received from my customers. 
They tell for themselves what they think of my stock and my way of doing 
business. You notice I give dates, names and addresses. Any one who feels 
like doing so can write to any one named in this book and get the facts 
at first hand. 

This year I am better prepared to furnish good stock than ever before. I 
don't fall back because I have got a big business. I am just as anxious 
to improve my poultry now as I was when I started the business. I shall 
be glad to have the orders of those who receive this book. I promise to 
treat you as well as I have my customers in the past, and that is as well as 
I know how. My old customers will be welcomed and I shall give them the 
same careful attention I always have. New customers will find me ready to 
serve them promptly and well. I expect to remain in this business all my 
life and I want to do business so every new customer will come back again 
and again. 

My incubators and brooders are just as good this year as they were last. 
I study them to improve and every time I find a way to improve them I do 
so and my customers get the benefit of my study. They are as well made 
as modern machinery and skilled workmen can make by using the very 



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best lumber that can be found on the market. Frank Foy incubators and 
brooders are scattered all over this country and in a good many foreign coun- 
tries and they work perfectly in every country and climate. 

My pigeon business is constantly growing and my stock is fine. I began 
breeding pigeons as a side line and it has grown up to be a big business of 
itself. I am prepared to furnish good squab stock at moderate prices. 

I appreciate what the public has done for me and would be very ungrate- 
ful if I did not. Read this book and decide for yourself. I tell in it exactly 
what I have for sale and give prices that can not be duplicated anywhere 
in this country for stock of the same quality. The high prices that poultry 
and eggs command promises to put the poultry business in the lead in this 
country. Those who buy line-bred, bred-to-lay stock of me will be the ones 
who will make the largest profits. Wishing you all the greatest success I 
remain, y 

Yours for money-making poultry, 

FRANK FOY, 



My Studies in Poultry Breeding 



No man can make a great success in any business unless he makes a study 
of it. The man who builds up a business must be "on the job" every day or 
things will go wrong sometime. He must know every detail of the business 
or he will not know whether his business is going right or wrong. When 
I was a boy I liked poultry but in those days a big poultry business seemed 
a long way off. Still I kept thinking about breeding poultry and studying 
about it and gathering all the information I could. I guess I must have been 
born for the business for no matter what I was working at poultry was in 
my mind. The most interesting thing on earth to me was poultry. I thought 
about it when at work or at play — and work was more plentiful with me 
than play in those days. I got into the habit of working, of doing things 
for myself, of studying out the best way. This is why when I did find myself 
able to start in the poultry business I knew how to go at it to make it a 
success. I had the theory of breeding well studied out and was ready to put 
it into practice. I was prepared just as a boy would be prepared to practice 
medicine by going to a medical school. I worked out my knowledge in the 
poultry yard instead of digging it out of books. I was able to improve my 
poultry, able to line-breed my flocks intelligently so as to improve year after 
year. I was also able to tell my customer how they could succeed. In the 
first place I could keep my fowls so the eggs would be strong in vitality, which 
is more than half the battle. The chicks came out of the shells strong and 
ready to begin to grow from the first day. I had the practical, working 
knowledge that every one must have before he can build up a big business. 
This is the whole secret of my success. It has saved my customers much 
trouble for the fowls or eggs they get from me are the kind that are easy to 
raise, keep in good condition and make money for them. Strong healthy 
stock, bred for quick maturity and heavy egg production is the kind that 
comes from a thorough knowledge of the business. My customers get the 
benefit of the years I put into studying the poultry business. If they were not 
satisfied they would not stick by me year after year as they do. 

It was the same way when I began to offer incubators for sale. I followed 
my old habit of studying things out and getting them just right, before I 
stopped studying. A college education is all right and many professions can 
not be followed without going to the higher schools, but the education that 
a poultryman needs is gained by working at the business. Then he can sell 
stock or eggs that will be a credit to him and make money for his customers. 

The result of my life-time study is Frank Foy, line-bred, heavy-laying 
poultry, and Frank Foy, incubators and brooders. These are known where- 
ever poultry is bred, which means about everywhere on earth, and wherever 
they are found will be the best of their kind. 



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My Customers Get My Experience Free 



When you are sick and hire a doctor to come and see you, or when you are 
in trouble and hire a lawyer to take care of your interests, you pay for the 
time of the man hired and for the cost of learning his profession. I don't 
make any charge for the cost of my poultry education. I made my education 
pay for itself before I began to do business with other people. 

I started in business even with the world as far as my knowledge of poul- 
try and artificial incubation was concerned. Then I adopted the motto of 
"Moderate prices and fair treatment to everyone," and began to do business. 

I haven't been working for nothing. I have made small profits, but I have 
made an immense number of sales, so I have made just as much money as I 
could have made by charging big profits, with fewer sales. I was a beginner 
once myself, and know just how hard some things seem to a beginner. There 
are things which are hard to overcome if one must dig them out for himself. 
I had to dig them out. I knew of no better way to do business than to do it 
so as to make every order bring others. This is plain common sense, and the 
only way to build up a permanent business. I am in this business for a 
life-time. The more good poultry I sell the greater will be the demand and 
the better my business. My best interest lies along the line of selling the 
kind of stock that will make money for my customers. Big words count for 
nothing. A square deal is all you want, and just what I want to give you. 
On this basis we can get together and do business to the advantage of both 
of us. I am willing to help you over the hard places. If you become my 
customer, my services are at your command any time. 



Don't Let Low Price Talk Fool You 



In order to produce a first-class, wholly satisfactory incubator, three things 
are essential. They are experience, equipment, and desire to build a really 
good article. 

Some men have the experience, but not the equipment; others have both 
experience and the equipment, but not the desire. 

Very modestly, but very truthfully, I can say that in the manufacture of 
the Frank Foy incubator I combine most happily all three of the requisites 
named above. 



Just Look at the Matter this Way 



Would it not seem wise, therefore, when you are ready to buy an incu- 
bator, to decide whether you want, say, $10 worth or $15 worth, and to un- 
derstand fully that in either case you will get what you pay for? But do 
not fool yourself with the absurd idea that if you pay $10 you will get a 
$15 machine. 

No; the incubator men are not in the business on that basis. Therefore, 
it's wise to be sensible on this price question. Don't think just because a 
man is a maker of incubators that he is therefore willing to do' something 
you would not think of doing in your business, that is, sell an article with- 
out profit. At whatever price the thing is sold, it must represent a profit, 
else the manufacturer will soon go into partnership with the sheriff. 

I think it is best to be sensible about all these things. I make the Frank 
Foy machine the vesy best I know how. First-class material, high-grade 



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workmanship, honesty, experience, skill — all go into the machine. I then 
make the price just as low as is consistent with the value which the incubator 
represents. 

I could make the price lower the same way the other manufacturers do, 
by making an inferior machine, hut this I have steadily refused to do. 

I am not worrying any over possible loss of sales on account of someone 
else quoting a lower price, but I am concerned about the damage my future 
business would sustain were I to yield to the temptation which would sacri- 
fice quality to price. 

If you do not care anything about what you get so long as it's cheap, per- 
haps you had better not send your order to me, but if you want a first-class 
incubator, built "upon honor," which will last for years and give satisfaction 
all the time, then perhaps you had better not send your order to anyone 
else. 



Before Buying an Incubator, Just Stop to Consider 



What I have to offer you. I have spent most of my life studying the poul-- 
try business. Ever since I was "knee-high to a duck," as the saying is, I 
have been interested in poultry. When I got old enough to look out for* 
myself, I hunted up a job where I could have poultry around me. So alS 
along through my life I have been thinking about poultry and about artificial 
incubation. These things have been the most interesting things on earth to 
me, and I have never lost interest in them. 

Years ago, when I was raising poultry on the farm, I invented the first 
incubator that was a success as far as hatching went. Not having the money 
to manufacture this machine, I sold out to another company. I was in their 
employ for six years, doing experimental work and making exhibition hatches 
at the various state fairs and large poultry shows. I have exhibited incu- 
bators in operation at Madison Square Garden, New York; Mechanic Hall, 
Boston; Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City, and a great many other places. 
During this period I improved every opportunity of visiting large poultry 
plants in this country, studying the conditions that lead to success. 

Finally I made up my mind that I had worked for others long enough, and 
went into the poultry business for myself. My success in this business ex- 
ceded my expectations. Now, don't it look reasonable that a man who has 
been in the poultry and incubator business for years, handling poultry and 
incubators almost daily, would know more about how to make a good ma- 
chine than a man that has been raised in the city and never had any practi- 
cal experience on the farm raising poultry? Of all the incubator manufac- 
turers in this country, there are only a few that are practical poultrymen. 
It is all theory with them. There is nothing like having the practical every- 
day experience. One fact is worth a hundred theories. 

My knowledge of the poultry and incubator business will be of much bene- 
fit to my patrons, and I want them to feel free at all times to consult me 
upon anything pertaining to the business. Now, look for your best inter- 
ests and buy of a man whose knowledge of the poultry business has been, 
gained by experience. 



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Frank Foy Incubator No. 1 



CAPACITY, 240 TO 250 EGGS. Weight, Crated for Shipment, 130 lbs. 

Price $14.00 

With No. 5 Brooder 22.00 

With No. 6 Brooder . . . 24.00 

The picture above shows the Frank Foy Incubator No. 1, filled with eggs 
and ready to begin operations. It is made of the best selected lumber, kiln 
dried and finished by automatic machinery, which cuts every piece to fit 
exactly in the place where it belongs in the finished machine. The legs are 
as carefully turned as if they were intended for the finest furniture. The 
tank is of extra thick cold-rolled copper, reinforced so as to make it as strong 
as possible. Every tank is tested under air pressure before being sent out. 
The big glass double doors give an opportunity to see the thermometer 
without opening the machine. The machine is set up, sand-papered, and 
given two coats of hard varnish, so it is as nicely finished as a piece of fur- 
niture, and proof against dampness or dry weather. With each machine I 
furnish an egg tester and a thermometer that has been tested. This machine 
is a beauty and as good as it looks. It holds 240 eggs. It costs but a trifle 
more than the 120 egg size, and will hatch twenty-five or more eggs just as 
well as if you filled it to its full capacity. If you do not have enough eggs 
to fill it, put in what you have. It requires just as much time to look after 
a small machine as it does a large one, and when you take off a hatch from 
.a large machine you have got something. The first hatch will generally much 
more than pay the difference in the cost. We do not advise the use of larger 
^machines than 240 eggs. If you want a larger capacity, better buy two or 

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Frank Foy Incubator No. 2 



CAPACITY, 120 EGGS. Weight, Crated for Shipment, 105 lbs. 

Price $12.00 

With No. 5 Brooder 20.00 

With No. 7 Brooder 18.25 

With No. 6 Brooder 22.00 

This machine does not differ from our 240-egg machine except in size. 
The distribution of heat, moisture and ventilation is exactly the same. It is 
made of the very best material throughout, cold-rolled copper tank, the best 
cedar woodwork, has double walls, top, bottom and doors; the tank is made 
of the best 12-ounce rolled copper, is absolutely self-regulating, supplies its 
own moisture and ventilation. It is furnished complete with all attachments 
and ready for business, except eggs and oil. 



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more machines. When you get beyond a certain size it becomes difficult to 
heat the egg chambers to a uniform temperature, which is very essential to 
the successful operation of any incubator. All our machines have nurseries 
under the trays, and are equipped with heavy copper tanks and heaters, are 
neatly finished, and are very handsome. No expense has been spared to make 
this a thoroughly reliable incubator for the practical poultryman. We guar- 
antee it to be as good a hatcher as any machine on the market, regardless 
of price. 



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The Regulator 



The regulating device of the Frank Foy incubators is the best one ever 
used. I have tried all sorts of regulators and have found the wafer ther- 
mostat to be the quickest to act, the most reliable under all circumstances, 
and the most durable one that can be used. No metal regulator is long- 
lived. Every time a metal regular is expanded it remains a little longer 
than it was at first and finally the expansion is all out of it and it remains 
"dead." With the wafer regulator the expansion comes from the expansion 
of a very volatile liquid, sulphuric ether, which is hermetically sealed in a 
spring brass wafer. As soon as the temperature changes, the volume of li- 
quid changes, and this action is invariable and may be repeated a million 
times without any change in the degree of its operation. It is the only thor- 
oughly reliable wafer ever invented. I have used this style for years and 
know exactly what it will do. I had my choice of all the styles in use. I 
have tried all of them and have chosen the best one. 



The Heating Device 



Our heating system is the simplest and most practical in the world. The 
best and most economical way I have ever found of heating an egg chamber 
to a uniform temperature is by the tubular tank system. They heat more 
quickly and throw off an even heat to every part of the egg chamber. The 
tank is made of 12-ounce hard copper, which will not rust out in a lifetime. 
The tank occupies the top part of the egg chamber and extends clear around 
it. Our heater is so constructed that all the heat from the lamp is used, and 
our improved tubular tank will throw off fully one-third more heat than any 
of the old-style flat tanks in existence. 

All our tanks are tested by air pressure before leaving factory. The 
method of testing is simple, yet effective. Each tank is securely fastened in 
a large tank of water about three inches under surface, then air pump is 
attached to incubator tank and it is filled with air under high pressure. If 
there are any leaks, air bubbles will at once rise to surface. 



The Lamp 



The lamps used on the Frank Foy incubators and brooders are made of 
the best grade of galvanized iron, and will not rust, leak or wear out. 

The lamp burner is extra heavy, the best I can buy, which is much better 
than is used on the most of incubators now sold. The lamp chimney is made 
of Russian iron, with large mica next to flame of lamp, so you can see at all 
times what size flame you are burning. 

All my incubators and brooders are equipped with these high-grade lamps, 
and they are just as safe as it is possible to make them. Lamp sits on an 
iron bracket, which swings out of the way when you want to remove the 
lamp from machine to trim wick. It is the most convenient I have ever seen 
on an incubator. 



Moisture and Ventilation 



One of the most foolish ideas that ever got into the heads of incubator 
operators was to add moisture to machines during incubation. We believe 
in fact, we know, by the many experiments we have made on the Crescent 
Farm, that more chicks are drowned in the shell by excessive moisture than 
are helped out of the shell by it. 



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In the Frank Foy incubator we have solved the moisture question by elimi- 
nating it altogether. After years of careful study on the moisture question 
and many experiments here, we have found out just how much ventilation 
to use. Too much ventilation will cause a great many chicks to die in the 
shell. More ventilation is needed in warm weather than in cold. The greater 
the difference between the outside and inside temperature, the more air will 
pass through the ventilators. As the air on the inside of the machine be- 
comes hot, it will rise, expand and be forced through the ventilator, while 
the cold air will rush in. Nature will not allow a vacuum. When the outside 
temperature is high, thus nearer the temperature on the inside, less artifi- 
cial heat is needed; therefore the inside expansion will be decreased and 
the rush of air through the ventilators lessened. Therefore, give more venti- 
lation during warm weather than cold. 



The Nursery 



All our incubators are provided with nurseries, which is the place below 
the trays to receive the chicks as soon as hatched. Any experienced incu- 
bator operator will tell you that a good nursery is a very essential thing to 
have in an incubator. It is much cheaper to build a machine without a nur- 
sery, but in the Frank Foy incubator nothing that is necessary, or even 
useful, will be left out to reduce cost. 



Everybody Claims to Have the Best; I Prove It 



After all is said and done, anyone can buy good material and hire good 
help. To say I use the best lumber, the best copper, and the best trimmings, 
and make my incubators and brooders in the best and most durable style, is 
only saying what anyone can say. Anyone who hopes to keep on doing busi- 
ness must take advantage of all these things in making their machines, and 
must talk about them in their catalogues. This is stock talk with every in- 
cubator maker in the country. We all say these things in the same way. 
Probably the public would take it for granted that we were trying to use 
good material if we would not say a word about it. 



Some Common Sense About Incubators 



My incubators and brooders are just practical common sense kind. They 
do not depend solely on good material and good workmanship. They are 
made exactly right for the best results, and when I say exactly right, that 
means they have been tested and tried, changed, remodeled and rebuilt more 
times than I like to think of before they were perfected and ready to offer 
to the public. Years ago we had well-made incubators that failed to hatch 
at all. They were experiments put on the market on theory. I made my 
theories and worked them out before I ever sold a single incubator. Don't 
think I guessed right the first time. I made mistakes; I laid awake nights 
making plans, and I studied over the matter for months before I got at the 
root of the trouble. 

You might make an incubator out of mahognay and ebony and put in it a 
silver tank and gold-mounted thermometer, and yet it would not work if it 
was not made right. My incubators and brooders are made to hatch. That 
is the first thing I thought of. Some of my first incubators were not pretty 
nor useful. Later I made some that were useful but not pretty. I looked 
after working qualities first, and when I had these I turned my attention 
to the ornamental part. 



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I might make an incubator that would cost three times as much as I sell 
mine for, that would not be worth a cent more for hatching eggs. I try to 
make my machines good to look at, but I try harder to make them good to 
hatch strong, vigorous chicks with. When you buy an incubator of me, you 
buy the perfect machine that has been worked out by a practical man who 
knows a good, vigorous chick when he sees it, and knows how an incubator 
should be made to produce this kind of chicks. I couldn't draw a picture of 
an incubator to save my life, but I could take lumber and tools and make one 
that would work the first time trying, because I know what is needed to make 
a machine of this kind that will work. If you buy of me, you buy all I have 
discovered about artificial incubation since I was a boy, and I have put in 
long days and a good many nights at it. 



Frank Foy Brooder 



Hot Air Indoor 




NO. 5 BROODER, INDOOR HOT AIR, 200 CHICK CAPACITY. 
Weight Crated for Shipment, 110 lbs. 



No. 5 Brooder, with Regulator and all fixtures complete $ 8.50 

With No. 1 Incubator 22.00 



Brooder No. 5 is what you want for No. 1 Incubator. This brooder can be 
used either indoors or outdoors, but should be provided with some kind 
of shelter for outdoor use. There is some building on almost every farm 
that will make a good place to run the brooder. I have had the best success 
in raising my chickens where I operated the brooder in a small movable 
house. There are many days the weather is not suitable for the chicks to 
run at large. At such times you can give them the run of the house the 
brooder is operated in. This plan is most successful where you are raising 
chickens in large numbers. This brooder is provided with the same regulator 
that I use on my incubators. The past season I have given much thought 
and attention to my brooders, with the result that they are as near perfect 
as it is possible to make them. A good brooder is just as necessary as a 
good incubator, as there is no profit in hatching a lot of chickens and let- 
ting them die in a poor brooder. 



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Frank Foy Brooder 



Hot Air Indoor 




NO. 4, 100 CHICK SIZE. Weight, Crated for Shipment, 80 lbs. 



With Regulator and all fixtures $ 6.75 

With No. 2 Incubator 18.50 



The construction of my No. 4 is exactly the same as the No. 5, with the ex- 
ception that it is smaller. The brooders have thick walls and double tops, 
and are so well protected that no cold air or draughts can enter the hoverer. 
The heating system is all top heat, no bottom heat being used in any of them. 
The lamp is on the inside, thus utilizing all the heat that it makes, but no 
fumes from the lamp can enter the brooder at any time or under any con- 
ditions. These brooders will raise nearly all the chicks that are hatched if 
given proper attention. 



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Frank Foy Brooder 



Hot Air Outdoor. 



NO. 6, OUTDOOR BROODER, 200 CHICK CAPACITY. 
Weight Crated for Shipment, 150 lbs. 

With all fixtures complete $10.50 

With No. 1 Incubator 22.50 

With No. 2 Incubator 20.50 



The Frank Foy outdoor brooders are constructed on the same general prin- 
ciples as our indoor brooders. My outdoor brooders have no regulators; ow- 
ing to their construction they do not require it. There is no possible cbance 
for the chicks to get overheated in them. If it becomes too warm around the 
heater, the chicks simply move back, the same as a person would move from 
a stove that was uncomfortably warm. There is no danger of the chicks be- 
coming overheated or chilled, as they adjust themselves to a proper tempera- 
ture by moving farther away or nearer to the source of heat as the case 
may require. The brooders are ventilated so that a good supply of fresh air 
is furnished at all times, and they are made to last, from a good quality of 
lumber and well painted with two coats of lead and oil. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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Frank Foy Hot Air Outdoor Brooder No. 7 



100 CHICK CAPACITY. 
Weight, Crated for Shipment, 9 lbs. 

Price ? 6.50 

With No. 2 Incubator 18.25 

The above cut represents my No. 7, 100 Chick Capacity, Outdoor Brooder. 
It is large and roomy, is made of good lumber, and has a good top, 
well painted and well made. In fact, it is just as good an outdoor brooder 
as there is on the market today. I have provided it with a safety lamp and 
thermometer. A 100 chick brooder is a little too small to go with a 120 
egg incubator, although some people buy two small brooders to go with a 
120 egg size. The No. 5 or 6 would be better if only one brooder is used. 
All my brooders are made for raising chickens, and neither time or money 
has been spared to make them perfect. 



Price List of Extra Supplies for Incubators and 

Brooders 



Brooder Thermometer 35 

Complete Set of Regulating Attachments, by express 1.25 

Lamp, complete, for 120 egg incubator or brooder, by express 1.00 

Lamp, complete, for 200 egg incubator or brooder, by express 1.25 

Egg Testers, by mail, postpaid 50 

No. 2 Sun Hinged Burner, by mail, postpaid 35 

No. 3 Sun Hinged Burner, by mail, postpaid 45 

Lamp Chimney for No. 2 Burner 25 

Lamp Chimney for No. 3 Burner 30 



14 CRESCENT POULTRY FARM 



Some Frank Foy Facts 



I want to give the readers some straight-from-the-shoulder facts about my 
business. I am going to do tbis because like every other successful man, 
imitators are likely to try to get business by copying my methods. 

FIRST — I am the oldest poultry breeder, who keeps more than two breeds, 
west of the Mississippi river who has made a specialty of breeding in line 
and breeding for big egg production. 

SECOND — I am the original big farm many variety poultry breeder in 
the territory west of the Mississippi. I have been breeding poultry longer 
than any extensive poultryman west of Illinois and longer than most other 
poultrymen in the United States. 

THIRD — I am the originator of the Frank Foy method of doing business, 
and built up my big and successful egg and poultry trade by my fair methods 
of treating my customers. I have been in business longer than any other 
extensive poultryman in my state and my customers know that when they 
do business with me they are going to get what they buy, selected by a man 
who is a practical, careful and skillful breeder. 

FOURTH — Do you know of any good reason why you should not expect 
better satisfaction when dealing with me than you would get from dealing 
with some one who began business after I had established the greatest busi- 
ness in poultry and eggs ever built up by any poultryman? I had my lines 
bred to lay, bred to feather, bred to as near perfection as they could be bred 
before many others who make large claims ever owned a fowl. I can sell 
cheaper, quality considered, than any other breeder in this country because 
I do business by wholesale and can give my customers the advantages of 
wholesale rates for retail lots. I could sell to many other poultry men at 
prices which would make them money and make money for my self. In 
short I can sell fowls at prices lower than the first cost to others who only 
breed a few birds. 

FIFTH — I CAN GIVE QUALITY as well as low prices. Remember I do 
not pretend to compete in prices with any breeder on earth. I handle fowls 
by the thousand and I know what they cost me. I can sell at a profit and 
still not ask any more than others do for ordinary stock. Every bird I sell 
has QUALITY. I have worked for quality, for years and years. It is very 
easy to make claims but I HAVE THE GOODS. QUALITY counts for every- 
thing in breeding poultry or any other kind of live stock. Unless a fowl has 
behind it a line of good ancestors, has behind it years of skillful breeding 
there is no assurance that it will produce high-class stock when put in the 
breeding pen. 

SIXTH — I have been right here year after year. I have been selling thou- 
sands of dollars worth of poultry and eggs every year for more years than 
any other extensive poultry breeder in Iowa. The original Frank Foy has 
been doing business with the public for a long time and the public keeps on 
coming back for more of the same kind every year, but — and here's a fact I 
want to impress on you. 

The Score is Not Everything 

I can go into any poultry show and buy a lot of high scoring birds, but 
when I put them together in the mating pens I don't know what I am going 
to get, because I don't know how they have been bred. It is a very common 
saying among experienced poultrymen that poultry show matings are unsafe 
ones to breed from. To breed good fowls we must have good ancestors for 
our birds. If we want high scores and big egg-records we must begin with 
line-bred, bred-to-lay fowls or eggs from such fowls. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 15 



The Honest but Ignorant Poultry Advertiser 

often sells his fowls or eggs believing they are all right. He does not know 
any better. He has bought eggs from a reliable breeder and thinks every 
chick hatched from those eggs is good enough to keep. He advertises the 
best on earth and those who buy of him are often very much disappointed 
in the results. We must have beginners for we old veterans in the business 
will have to step down sooner or later, but the beginner is likely to make 
a good many mistakes which we older breeders would never make. 

The Public Don't Get the Same Kind 

this year that it got last year. I don't sell the same quality this year that 
I did last year. MY STOCK IS A LITTLE BETTER THIS YEAR than it 
was last year. I don't make much progress lately from year to year because 
the better stock gets the harder it is to improve it but I manage to make a 
little improvement every year. All this means work, study, keeping everlast- 
ingly at it. I don't sell seeds and poultry and eggs and work on a farm and 
loaf at the corner grocery. I just breed poultry, three hundred and sixty- 
five days in the year and during the busy season part of the nights. Breed- 
ing poultry is my sole and only business and I have enough business to keep 
me pretty busy. 

A Jack-At-All-Trades 

is a pretty handy fellow to have around but he never makes much of a suc- 
cess at anything. I believe in sticking to my business and buying the other 
things that I might produce, if I did not put my whole time in at poultry 
raising. I am willing to trust the hired man to do any work that needs 
doing around Crescent Farm, except to manage the chicken business. That 
I do myself, because I want to know exactly how it is done. I am particular 
about this because I have put in a good many years breeding up my flocks 
and a single mistake might do a lot of damage. I have made my reputa- 
tion by hard work. It is my stock in trade. I MUST keep it up or my busi- 
ness will die on my hands. I have a lot at stake because my whole success 
rests on doing a little bit better by my customers than I agree to do. I ask 
a dollar for what I try to make worth more than a dollar to my customers. 
I sell fowls that are worth the money and with them I throw in all I have 
learned in a lifetime. Anybody can breed poultry in one year but to breed 
experience that is worth anything requires a good many years. 

Now What Do You' Want 

when you buy fowls or eggs? You want the very best you can buy for the 
amount of money you have to spend. Does it stand to reason that a 
breeder who lives in a town and keeps his fowls on a town lot can afford to 
sell you as good quality as cheaply as the man who has a big farm and 
breeds thousands of chickens or other fowls? Certainly not. The man who 
handles only a few must select his breeding pens from his few fowls. He 
is limited in making his choice. He does the best he can but his best is not 
THE best. I can pick over a hundred in mating up one pen and then have 
other hundred to select from. I can just as well afford to breed from the 
very best I have as from the poorest. Every bird in my flocks has been se- 
lected and when it comes to supplying good birds I have more chance to se- 
lect than any other poultryman in this country, therefore I have a better 
opportunity to serve my customers well. That I do satisfy them the testi- 
monials in this book show and because I can satisfy you I ask you to give me 
a chance to do business with you. 

Only a Little' Room Required 

Don't think it takes all out doors to make a poultry farm. A good sized 
flock can be kept in a back yard on a town lot. One of the best known and 
most prosperous poultrymen in this country started in the back yard of his 
town lot. After his flock grew beyond the room he had on one lot he rented 
a vacant lot near his home and made enough money out of the poultry he 
kept on it to buy the lot. Then he bought two more lots and paid for them 
with the poultry he kept. AH this time he was doing a man's work in an of- 



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fice. Then his lots got too valuable to use for poultry-keeping and he sold 
them and moved to the country and now he has a fine poultry farm and lives 
in comfort without working for anybody else. Don't wait until you have 
money enough to buy a farm, if you are thinking of going into the poultry 
business. Start in the back yard. Keep good fowls, sell eggs for hatching, 
increase your stock as fast as you can from the money it brings in and keep 
right on with your regular work. This leaves you the chicken money to in- 
crease your poultry business with and before you know it you will be ready 
to go to work for yourself and bid bosses good by. When a man works for 
himself he is not going to be fired when the boss gets out of temper and all 
he makes belongs to himself instead of to the boss. Start in on a small 
place and grow, and you will soon be able to take a larger place. I know one 
shop worker in a western town who keeps over 40 hens on a lot back of his 
house which is 50x100 feet. Last year he cleared almost exactly one dol- 
lar a day above the cost of the feed his hens consumed from this flock and 
it was his first experience in the poultry business. He made a little over 
$300.00 selling eggs and young chickens besides doing his work in the shop 
every day. Next year he is going to cut out the shop work and work for 
himself and he will make more money than he ever did in one year in his 
life. He knows now just how to handle his flock and make it pay the best 
and within five years he will have a poultry farm of his own. The editor of 
a big poultry paper told this story in his paper last spring and it may be de- 
pended on to be the exact truth. Any one can do as well as this young man 
has if he will only start out and put his mind to it. 



Beginning the Poultry Business 



Have you ever stopped to consider what the poultry business really is? 
When I began, it was considered "small potatoes" and a little business for 
& real man to spend his time on. Now it has got to be such a big thing that 
men start in and build up a business which amounts to thousands of dollars 
every year and is considered one of the regular and growing branches of 
our industries. 

If we compare the money made by the hens and the hogs of this country, 
the hen comes out ahead with something to spare. The hog has been called 
the farmer's "mortgage raiser"; but while the farmer has been raising hogs 
to sell for money with which to pay the mortgage, the farmer's wife has been 
sellings eggs, chickens and turkeys enough to buy the groceries and keep the 
children clothed. I think the hen has had about as much to do with paying 
mortgages as the hog has. 

I want to help beginners because it makes more business for me. The 
more fine poultry there is in the country, the larger the demand for good 
poultry. When I began I had to stumble along and learn how to do the 
work to make a profit. Now the beginner has the experiment stations to 
help him and even the Agricultural Department of the United States has 
started a poultry farm. 

I know just where the beginner is likely to fall down and am able to 
show him how to get around the stumbling block that he will find in his way. 

Poultry and eggs are bringing more money every year and the top prices 
are not reached yet. The country is filling up, cattle are higher in price, 
beef and pork sell for more money every year, and the people must have 
meat to eat, so the price of poultry and eggs follows the rising prices of 
other meat foods. 

If you go into any other line of business, you must have considerable 
capital with which to start. If you begin the poultry business, you can make 
a good start with little money and grow up rapidly into a business which is 
growing larger every year. You do not need to have thousands of dollars 
to invest before you can make a good living from poultry and if you start 
in a small way you can go on doing the work you are now doing until the 
poultry business gets big enough to support you. The poultry business is 
the most promising one open to the man with small capital. 



PRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 17 



A Market for Poultry and Eggs Everywhere 



The poultryman produces things which sell in any town on earth. It 
doesn't make any difference where poultry is kept, it can be sold; and eggs 
are as salable as wheat and much more profitable. 

If a poultryman wants to sell out his stock, he can do it any day in the 
year without hunting a buyer. In any other business a buyer must be hunted 
up and the price must be agreed upon before it can be closed out. In the 
poultry business there is a buyer in every town and a demand at a fixed price 
for everything the poultryman has to sell. 

The man who starts out in the poultry business does not take any chances. 
He knows about what he may expect to sell his products for and about how 
much his expenses will be. Crops may fail, panics may come, as the panic 
of last year came, but the poultryman does not feel the effect. The price of 
poultry and eggs was not affected by the panic of last year while prices for 
other things were uncertain for a long time. If you start a factory, fashions 
may change, other inventions take the place of the machinery you make, or 
a hundred other things happen. In the poultry business nothing of the kind 
will happen. You furnish the poultry and eggs and a hungry public buys it 
greedily and at any time. 

I know about what I am talking. I have lived through panic years and 
through prosperous ones and the poultry business has got better every year. 

A word about pure-bred poultry: There is just as constant and as in- 
sistent demand for the pure-bred, fancy poultry as there is for poultry for 
market. The man who produces high-class poultry gets high-class prices. 
And every year he gets better prices. 



Get Into a Growing! Business 



One great secret of success in any line of business is to get into a grow- 
ing business. The poultry business is growing now as it never did before. 
It is absolutely certain to keep on growing for many years. The country is 
becoming more thickly populated all the time, and the chance to raise the 
larger food animals is growing smaller. This leaves an opening for poultry 
which must be filled by increasing the number of fowls kept in the country. 
In all the older countries poultry-keeping has become one of the great indus- 
tries. The flesh of fowls has always been considered more dainty and tooth- 
some than that of cattle or swine, and the demand for it grows rapidly in 
every country as soon as it becomes filled up with well-to-do people. 



Poultry Takes the Place of Game 



The flesh of birds will always hold a high place in the bill of fare of every 
people. When game birds were plentiful, and wild birds could be had for 
the trouble of shooting them, they were sold at a low price, and competed 
in the markets with domestic poultry. This kept prices down. Now game 
is getting so scarce that nearly every state allows it to be shot only for a 
short time each year. This cuts off the supply to such an extent that even 
the richest people cannot have wild fowl on their tables for more than a 
short time each year, and then at very high prices. This leaves a big place 
to be filled with poultry. 



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These Conditions Make High Prices 



All these conditions have a tendency to make prices higher, and the 
average price of poultry has heen increasing regularly for several years, 
while the cost of producing it has not increased. This makes the poultry 
business more profitable every year, and the outlook was never brighter than 
it now is. The man who starts in the poultry business now is certain of an 
increasing demand, higher prices and greater profits than were ever before 
known for his products. 



Poultry More Profitable than Other Stock 



It has been proved that it does not cost any more to produce a pound of 
pure-bred poultry than it does to produce a pound of pork or beef. I do not 
need to tell the intelligent reader that poultry always sells for more, pound 
for pound, than does either pork or beef. A pound of poultry yields the pro- 
ducer about twice the clear profit tha,t is realized from the production of 
pork and beef. This has been definitely settled by careful experiments at 
one of our big experiment stations. 



Pure-Bred Poultry is Money-Making Poultry 



It is entirely too late in the day to argue that "razor back" hogs or 
"penny-royal" cattle are as good as Poland-China or Berkshire hogs or Short- 
horn or Hereford cattle. Every man who has any information at all on the 
subject knows that improved stock is by far the best because it produces 
more pounds of meat at a less cost than scrub stock. It is the same with 
poultry. My pure-bred strains of fowls will make more weight of flesh on 
a given quantity of feed, or produce more eggs at a given cost than could 
be produced by any flock of average hens in the world. My fowls have been 
bred to a certain definite end — the production of poultry for market and eggs 
at the lowest possible cost. Sometimes we find a hog or a steer which grows 
faster and puts on more weight than any other one in the bunch. There is 
the same difference in fowls. One will grow rapidly or one hen will produce 
more eggs than any other one in the flock. By selecting the ones that mature 
most quickly or the pullets that lay the most eggs, for my breeding yards, I 
have bred my strains up to the point where they produce the largest profits 
for a given cost for feed. 



Double Profit Hens 



I started out at the beginning of my poultry work with a determination 
to try to breed strains of fowls which would yield double the profit of ordi- 
nary hens. I have worked more years than I like to think about in getting 
my strains to this point. It was heart-breaking business at first, for progress 
was slow. I didn't know just how to mate, feed or breed for the best results. 
At last I got started in the right direction, and now I am ready to give to my 
customers the benefit of all the labor, time and study I have gone through 
in order to produce line-bred, quick-maturing, heavy-laying fowls. Backed 
by generations of good ancestors, my fowls produce birds of their own kind 
and high quality. If I were to charge, as a doctor or lawyer does, for the 
time spent "learning how," I would be asking $20 a setting for eggs instead 
of $2 for single settings. It is only by raising poultry on an immense scale 
that I can afford to make the low price I do for such high quality stock and 
eggs. , 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 19 



Remember this Advice 



To the beginner I would say: Don't expect to get rich the first year. It 
is better to begin with a small flock or a few settings of eggs and be content 
with small profits at first. You will be learning all the time how to handle 
larger flocks. You will grow into the business and in a very few years be 
ready to give your whole time to it. 

I can sell you incubators that will work anywhere under average condi- 
tions. I ca.n sell you fowls or eggs that will produce good birds, and I can 
give you advice that will help you any time you ask me for it. 

I have made all I am worth in the poultry business. I began with a little 
stock and less money, and I have pulled ahead every year until I have got to 
the place where I a.m my own master and able to take things easy. If you 
will follow my advice as I have here given it, you may succeed as well as I 
have or as well as any other breeder. To succeed you must start right, with 
good stock. Take good care of your birds. Study the business so you can 
grow into it, and you will soon be recognized as one of the great poultry fra- 
ternity. 



A Billion Dollar Business 



The human mind can not comprehend the meaning of the words "billion 
of dollars." The sum is too stupendous for the mind to grasp it. It means 
more than the income of the United States for a year. More than all the 
import duties, revenue taxes, receipts from the postoffice and government 
lands, more than all the revenues of this great United States government for 
a whole year. If you had a billion dollars, you could buy out Rockefeller, 
the richest man in the world, and give away his property and then have 
enough left to do it over again. 

A silver dollar is almost exactly one and one-half inches across. If you 
had a billion silver dollars and would begin in laying them side by side at 
New York you would have enough to reach to San Francisco. 

If you had a billion dollars, you could pay the national debt in less than 
two years, build three big warships, or support the American navy for four 
years, with some to spare. 

You see a billion dollars means a pretty big pile of money, yet it just 
about represents the earnings of the poultry business in the United States in 
one year. 

The flocks of hens in our country are turning a billion dollars' worth of 
products over to their owners every year and the little poultry business is a 
pretty big thing when you come to look up the figures. The poultry business 
of this country is a thousand times bigger than it was thirty years ago. Any 
business which has kept right on growing every year for thirty years at the 
rate of 30 per cent a year, is worth thinking about. The poultry business 
grows because it furnishes men, women and children with food and the 
more people there are in a country, the more demand there is for food 
products of all kinds. Every year the proportion of people in towns and 
cities increases and these non-producers keep competing with each other in 
their demand for food, so meat, poultry and eggs keep rising in prices all the 
time. The more workmen in the factories, the more eggs and poultry are 
needed to supply them. 

Poultry is no longer a luxury. It is one of the staple foods of our people. 
The present standard of living calls for eggs at least once a day and the 
workingmen of the country live up to the standard. 

Why, the poultry keepers of this country could pay every old soldier hia 
pension and not miss it. They would only need to give up less than one- 
sixth of the money they get for poultry and eggs to do it. 

The poultry business is something to be proud of and to keep in mind 
because it is coming on more rapidly than any other business on earth. 



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Edds and Poultry Getting Higher All the Time 



And eggs are getting higher all the time. If we produced twice as much 
poultry end twice as many eggs as we do now, there would be demand enough 
to take all of them every year. 

The average flock of this country in the census year was forty-three hens, 
and the average returns from each flock was about $55. This means that the 
hens laid eggs enough and hatched chickens enough to bring their owners 
about $1.28 each. If all these hens had been pure-bred stock, selected for 
laying, they would have brought their owners twice as much money at no 
more cost for feed, houses or care. 



Hens or Pullets 



So much has been said about selling hens and keeping pullets that the 
public, or that part of it with little experience in poultry-keeping, has got 
to thinking that after a hen is a year old she almost quits laying. This is 
a mistake that a good many make when starting in by buying fowls to start 
with. No one should start with pullets with the intention of beginning to 
breed poultry. Pullets are all right as layers, but they are no better than 
one-year-old hens for this purpose and when it comes to hatching chickens 
the eggs from hens are very much to be preferred. For my part I would 
much prefer to hatch all my chickens from hens past two years old. Such 
chickens from fully matured stock are larger when first hatched, stronger, 
more vigorous and will mature earlier than chicks hatched from the eggs 
of pullets. 

I strongly advise beginners who buy stock in the fall, no matter where 
they buy them, to specify that they want hens over one year old. These 
hens go into their second winter strong and fully matured and they will lay 
better during the winter than any pullets. They will furnish full sized 
eggs for hatching and can be disposed of at the end of their third summer 
at the highest market price as roasters, or kept over another year, for a hen 
is good for breeding until three or four years old. I can always supply 
choice year-old hens in the fall and these hens will do the beginner more 
good than pullets would. They have been tested and found all right as 
breeders and are safe to start with, being better for the beginner than un- 
tested pullets. If you want good winter layers and good breeders buy hens 
in their second year. 



You Can't Afford to Keep Scrub Hens 



Can any one afford to keep average hens, when good ones or eggs from 
good ones may be bought at a price which will allow the buyer to make his 
money back the first year, and as much in addition as he would have profited 
by continuing to keep the common kind? It does not cost any more to house, 
feed and care for a hen which lays 150 eggs in a year than it does to house, 
feed and care for one which lays sixty-six eggs, and the returns are nearly 
two and one-half times greater. 

One thing I have discovered; that is that all the talking all the poultry- 
men in the world might do will not convert a, large proportion of poutry- 
keepers of this country from the errors of their ways. The man who will 
not read, who never sends for a catalogue, who never takes any pains to in- 
form himself, never makes any progress. He keeps in the same old rut, year 
after year, while his more progressive neighbor informs himself and improves 
his flocks until he has as good as can be found. It is the intelligent, pro- 
gressive, up-to-date poultry-keeper whom I want to reach. I can do him a 
great deal of good, while he is doing me some good. I have the kind of 
fowls that make money. I have the incubators and brooders and other poul- 
try appliances that go to save labor and add to the profits of those who keep 
poultry. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 21 



$1,000 a Year for Spare Time 



It is a well established fact that there is money in poultry. There are 
many men and women who are making it pay big. There are thousands 
more who are making money out of the business conducting it as a side- 
line, many of them making $300 to $1,000 a year and more, and they de- 
vote only a small share of their time to the business. What others have 
done others may do. Why not you? From my own experience I can say 
very emphatically that the poultry business does pay, and pays well, too. 
There are hundreds, yes, thousands, of poultry plants that are doing business 
that every year amounts up into the thousands, and most of these are not 
of the mushroom growth, either. They started small and their business 
increased as my own has every year. 

Anyone capable of managing any business can just as well make a suc- 
cess of poultry raising. All it needs is an interest in the work and common 
sense enough to profit by the experience of others, as well as to be original 
and improve on other people's methods. 

Always keep in mind, "There is plenty of room at the top of the ladder." 
Get the best start you can; the best stock to be had, even if you can afford 
but a few. When you start right you are sure to go right and you will never 
regret it if you get your start from Crescent Poultry Farm's stock or eggs. 



Large Profits from Light Work 



For the small amount of money required, we know of no other legitimate 
business that will bring quicker and better returns than poultry. There is 
no hard work about it, as in all other branches of live stock raising or gen- 
eral farming. With light work and a love for the business, which becomes 
more and more fascinating as we develop it, I know of nothing that could 
be better adapted to those who are physically unable and indisposed to enter 
other lines of trade that demand the use of brawn to a greater or less de- 
gree. Many a person has left the confinement of store or shop with an ex- 
hausted constitution, contracted by close quarters and overwork, and has 
found health, the greatest of all blessings, as well as profit and enjoyment 
in life simply from taking to raising poultry with a very small capital. 
"What they have done you can do if you try. 



Become Independent by Producing Poultry Products 



Thousands of people are today making a comfortable living and many 
have become independent by raising poultry and eggs for market. It has 
been proven by careful experiments that it costs no more to produce a pound 
of poultry than it does to produce a pound of pork or beef. Yet poultry is 
always worth more per pound than any other meat, and sells just as readily. 

Repeated experiments have shown that it costs something less than six 
cents a dozen to produce eggs. During late years, eggs have never been so 
low as the cost price. There has been a steady increase in the price of eggs 
ever since cold storage has been used to keep summer eggs over for winter 
use. When eggs can be produced at six cents or less a dozen and sold for 
fifteen to twenty-five cents or more, it does not require any argument to 
show that they are very profitable. 

With modern methods for keeping eggs over from the warm season, when 
they are plentiful, to the cold season, when they are scarce, there is not the 
least danger that the market will ever become overstocked. In fact, this 
country could use four times as many eggs as are now produced without 
glutting the market. As it now is, people who live in the cities many times 
have to pay fifty and sixty cents a dozen for cold storage eggs in winter. 



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Two Crops from the Same Land 



There is nothing better for fruit trees than to have poultry running 
around them. The fowls fertilize the trees and keep injurious insects away, 
while the trees furnish shade for the fowls. The two kinds of business go 
together in such a way that each helps the other. Just as much fruit can be 
raised on an acre, and more, too, where hens are kept on the land, and hens 
will do better in the orchard than anywhere else. 

The man who has an acre or two of land and will put it out to such fruit 
as does best in his locality, keeping the land occupied with poultry, will save 
hearty, happy and profitable fowls and an orchard which will bear regular 
and abundant crops of fruit. 

Put trees in your poultry yards, and poultry in your orchards, if you want 
to make your land yield. 



A Few Dollars Start You 



It only requires a few dollars to make a good start in the poultry busi- 
ness, and a little flock can be kept at very small expense. I know of a 
man who was doing office work who concluded to buy a few hens and put 
them in his back yard so as to have something to kill time. He bought the 
hens, fixed up a house for them out of two piano boxes and began to watch 
them. He did not know much about keeping chickens so he bought ten 
pounds of wheat, ten pounds of shelled corn and started in. He and his 
wife both got interested and those hens were fed and watered and the scraps 
from the table and kitchen that used to go into the garbage box were fed 
to the hens. In a few days they got an egg and told the neighbors about 
it. Then they began to get three and four eggs a day and stopped buying 
them at the store. The neighbors on each side got in the fashion to throw- 
ing their kitchen and table scraps over the fence to the hens and the result 
was that the twenty pounds of grain bought at the beginning was all that 
was bought for 9 months. Those hens lived on table scraps, loose cabbage 
leaves, potato and turnip peelings and all such refuse that is in the way 
about every house. They more than supplied the family with eggs and the 
cost of keeping them was scarcely nothing at all. 

There are hundreds of city and town people who might keep a dozen or 
two dozen hens and supply themselves and their neighbors with eggs that 
they know are fresh. Table scraps are the very best egg-food that can be 
found and one ordinary family wastes enough such things to keep a dozen 
hens. A dozen hens will be happy in a yard 10x20 feet or even smaller and 
they save much more than their cost in a year. I can always supply go.od 
young hens in the fall at very reasonable prices and these are just ready to 
lay right through the winter. It is a good time to start in the fall and have 
the hens ready to furnish big eggs that will produce strong chicks in the 
spring. Many a poultryman has grown up from a backyard poultry flock 
to a big poultry plant, because the experience he got in the back yard showed 
him how profitable poultry is and he has branched out until he has had a 
home of his own in the country and made a comfortable fortune for him- 
self. Starting in a small way this way the beginner learns how to manage 
more and more fowls until he is able to handle the largest flock successfully. 
It is the cheapest education the beginner in poultry can get. 



Broiler Raising a Profitable Business 



All things considered, the broiler business is a most profitable one for 
the capital invested, and it can be operated on either a large or small scale 
and on the farm or in the towns. It also has the advantage of being light 



FRANK F O Y. PROPHIETOK 23 



work, which anyone can do, and this accounts for so many women members 
of families making a success of it. 

The question as to whether broiler raising pays or not has been thor- 
oughly settled in the affirmative. The large broiler plants that continue to 
flourish throughout the country is abundant proof that the business pays. It 
can be started with a small capital, and if properly managed there is no busi- 
ness that presents to those of moderate means a better prospect than that of 
"broiler raising." It has made many men and women prosperous and hap- 
py, and for the same reasons as those advanced elsewhere in this booklet, 
you should start in the broiler business with thoroughbred fowls or eggs, as 
you thereby have two chances of profit to the other fellow's one, if he is 
hatching dunghills only. 



Raising* Capons Very Profitable 



Suppose you live where the demand for spring chickens is not good 
enough to bring you 50 cents each at broiler size. In such case I would 
advise you to keep your cockerels and caponize them when about twelve 
weeks old. Capons are very easily kept, as after they are caponized, they 
become quiet and gentle, having no ambition but to eat and grow. Capons 
always sell at a good price in the spring. In the east they frequently bring 
as high as 35 cents a pound, but in the west prices are not quite so high, 
although each year the demand causes higher prices. 

The writer has an acquaintance who raises capons and sells them in the 
regular market in Chicago. Anyone within a thousand miles of Chicago can 
get as good prices as if he lived just outside the city limits. All the larger 
cities have a good demand for capons at not less than Chicago prices. 

This acquaintance of ours sold his capons in March last year to a Chicago 
commission merchant for 21 cents a pound. They weighed a little over nine 
pounds each, and he made a clear profit of more than $1 a head on them. 

The operation of caponizing is very simple, and anyone can do the work 
rapidly and easily after a trial or two. I sell a set of caponizing tools that 
are the best made for $2.75, and a man will caponize 150 birds in a day and 
work slow. 

Capons grow to weigh considerably more than uncaponized cocks, and the 
flesh is always as sweet and tender as that of a fat, young spring chicken. A 
girl in Illinois raised more than 400 capons in one year and shipped them to 
Philadelphia, the great capon market of this country, receiving 28 cents a 
pound after paying freight and commission. 

This is a branch of the poultry business that is rapidly coming to the 
front. Anyone who produces good capons will make large profits from them. 



The No- Yard Plan Q i Keeping Chickens 



For several years we have heard a great deal about intensive poultry 
culture. That is keeping a large number of fowls on a small plot of land. 
A man in an eastern state first made this system public. His plan was to 
shut his pullets in a house and keep them there until they had finished 
their usefulness as layers and were ready to be sold in the market for food 
purposes. 

His first story was received with great doubts but after an investigation 
it was found that he actually kept his chickens year in and year out in 
their houses. It was also found that this was a profitable way to keep 
chickens for any one who has only a limited space to use for this purpose. 



24 CRESCENT POULTRY FARM 



Later others tried the same plan and poultry houses adapted to this way 
of keeping chickens were invented. Now there are thousands of little flocks 
thriving and happy, laying eggs regularly, which have never been outside a 
space that we once thought was not big enough for one hen. 

The best plans now followed are small, low houses, with hinged roofs. 
The hens are kept in these and when the owner wants to get at them he sim- 
ply lifts the roof and looks down at the hens from above. Others make little 
houses large enough to enter and keep more hens in a flock. The writer 
has visited a flock where the houses are 4x6 feet in which six hens were kept 
and the owner assured us that his hens kept healthy and laid more than 
those which ran about the farm. 

One big poultry farm is just 50x100 feet, containing 5,000 square feet of 
land. This does not sound very big but there are 600 hens the year through 
on this miniature farm and they make enough money for their owner that 
he can afford to put his whole time on them. 

His houses are 10x16 feet and 25 hens are kept in each house. On a plot 
50x50 feet, lettuce Swiss chard, rape, cabbage, etc., are grown for green 
feed during the summer and in winter alfalfa hay cut into short lengths is 
used instead of the green stuff. The houses are kept strictly clean, the hens 
must scratch in litter for their grain and in this way get plenty of exercise. 
The houses are set four feet apart so as to make it easy to go around to 
them. Such a plant occupies less space than any ordinary city lot. The 
eggs are sold to private customers at considerably more than the market 
price and the profits amount to over a thousand dollars a year above the 
cost of feed. This man has a good income from his poultry. He keeps his 
hens until they are past their third summer as he finds they make better 
winter layers than pullets when kept by this method. 

If this plan is followed any one who has a home and a lot can keep enough 
chickens to add considerably to his income and supply his own family with 
poultry and eggs. 

The no-yard way of keeping chickens has been proved to be perfectly good 
and hens confined in this way lay better, keep in better health and produce 
stronger chicks than those exposed to all kinds of weather. For the city 
man who likes poultry this new method is the thing that makes it possible 
for him to keep poultry and make it pay him as well as give him something 
to do to drive away the cares of business. 



Feed and Care of Youn^ Chicks 



Young chicks should be kept growing every minute from the time they are 
hatched until they have grown to full size or have been sold in the market. 

Chicks do not require feeding until they are from twenty-four to thirty 
hours out of the shell. Some good poultry breeders do not feed them until 
they are thirty-six hours old. Nature provides for them up to this time, 
and they are better for not being fed. 

The first feed should be cracked wheat, cracked corn or other fine grain. 
At the same time some small grit should be placed before them, as this will 
be needed to grind the feed they eat. Many young chicks die because they 
are not provided with grit soon enough. 

The dry method of feeding is rapidly taking the place of wet feed, and 
our best poultrymen now feed nothing but dry feed. It has been established 
that chicks fed on dry feed are not nearly as likely to contract bowel troubles 
as those fed on soft and wet feed. This would not be the case if wet feed 
were properly mixed, making it as dry as possible, that is, using as little 
water as possible in mixing it. Mixing it this way is a troublesome task, 
and not a few simply put in water enough to make it mix easily, and thereby 
put the chicks in danger. 

Foy's Perfect Chick Feed is made especially for young chicks, and can be 
depended on to make them grow rapidly and to keep them in good health. 
It costs a little more than cracked corn or plain wheat, but it prevents dis- 



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ease and in the end is the cheapest feed that can be used. It is made up of 
a large number of grains and seed, with just enough grit, meat, bone and 
shell to furnish the growing chick with material for bone, muscles, feathers 
and fat. 

Where chicks are hatched in an incubator they should be taken out and 
put in a brooder that has been warmed ready for them. About 100 degrees 
is the proper temperature to begin with. This can be lowered gradually 
until the end of four weeks it runs from 60 to 70 degrees, according to the 
outside temperature. Keep fresh water where the chicks can get it all the 
time. Never feed more than they will eat clean with a good appetite, and 
feed very often at first. When the chicks are three weeks old, begin feeding 
a little cracked corn and wheat, using the chick feed for three meals a day 
and the corn and wheat for two meals. Gradually feed more of the corn and 
wheat and less of the chick feed until at two months of age they may be fed 
corn and wheat without any chick feed. If they are kept in a yard, begin to 
feed them green feed from the first. Feed a little for a week or two and 
after that all they will eat. Lettuce or onion tops cut fin, dandelion leaves 
or fresh cut grass from the lawn are all fine feed for little chicks, and you 
will be surprised how much green stuff they will eat. They will leave almost 
anything else for a meal of dandelion tops or lettuce leaves. A small patcb 
of lettuce will feed a big flock of chicks for a long time. Cut the leaves off 
instead of pulling the plants up, and they will renew themselves during 
the whole season. 

Dwarf essex rape is a quick growing crop which renews itself when cut 
off and chicks like it very much. It grows rapidly and may be sown any 
time in the season, as it makes a good-sized plant in four or five weeks. 

Charcoal and meat scrap should be fed if it can be got handily. 

Give the chicks liberty to run on a grassy plot as soon as the weather is 
warm enough. If they are kept in a brooder they soon learn to run in and 
out and take care of themselves. 

Keep little chicks warm and dry. Feed them all they will eat and furnish 
them with fresh water. Keep grit before them all the time and keep them 
free from lice and you will not be troubld with disease of weak, "scraggly" 
chicks. 



Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead 



One of the sayings of Davy Crockett was, "Be sure you're right, then go 
ahead." I want to impress this upon you who may read this, and urge on 
you the importance of starting right, when you begin the poultry business. 
You can not afford to neglect this important point. In order to succeed in 
the poultry business you must have healthy stock and you must have good 
layers. I would like to print those two "musts" in the above sentence in 
letters a foot high. It is imperative that you have stock which can be relied 
upon, for on this depends success. 

Thousands of beginners advertise stock and eggs every year and sell what 
they have, although it may not be fit for breeding or to produce eggs from 
which will come strong, vigorous chickens. These beginners are not dis- 
honest. They probably have bought eggs and stock from perfectly reliable 
breeders of high-class poultry. The trouble is they lack experience and 
really do not know a good fowl from a poor one. Selecting breeding stock 
and mating breeding pens for the best results is a matter which cannot be 
learned in one year or two, or even a longer time. The oldest of us learn 
something every year and we study our fowls every day in the year. 

I started out determined to perfect strains of fowls which would produce 
heavy layers and at the same time birds with strong constituions, which 
would not succumb to the first neglect to which they were subjected, for I 
knew my birds would go to the careless as well as the careful, and that I 
would be blamed for the carelessness of others if my stock did not stand up 
under all circumstances. 



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Health, Vigor and Productiveness 



Have been the three words I have kept in my mind from the beginning. 
As the saying is, I have kept these words "pasted in my hat" all the time, 
and any fowl which did not come within the line which these words indicate 
has been thrown out no matter how good it seemed to be. 

I first learned how to select the right kind of stock. Then I was ready 
to start right. After that, by careful line-breeding, I was able to make con- 
stant improvement, until now I am prepared to furnish stock or eggs to be- 
ginners which enable them to start right without the long years of pre- 
liminary work I went through with before I was really ready to start. My 
stock is the start-right kind. It has behind it all my years of experience and 
what I have learned in that time. 

My line-bred, start-right kind of stock will give you strong constitutions, 
standard shape and markings, and great egg-laying capacity. This is the 
only kind I keep, and the only kind anyone ought to buy. You don't buy 
guesswork when you buy eggs or breeding stock of me. You buy my expe- 
rience and the result of my careful line-breeding, and my prices are not 
higher than those of other breeders who have not been breeding long enough 
to know whether they started right or not. 



Breeding for Best Results 



Neither accident nor good luck has ever helped to improve poultry. Im- 
provement goes on only when a carefully considered selection of breeding 
stock is the rule of the breeder. Line-breeding is the only way to bring out 
and perfect the good points in any strain of fowls. Scientists tell us, and all 
who have paid any attention to breeding know, that every animal or fowl con- 
tains in its make-up some of the traits of all of its ancestors. A fowl may 
resemble one ancestor much more than any one and its offspring may 
resemble some other of its ancestors. This is true of all animate existence. 
In breeding fowls I have proceeded on the theory that the fewer ancestors a 
given bird has the better I can control its progeny, and the better chance I 
have of knowing whatl am going to get when I put it in the breediDg pen. 



Broiler Raising in the City 



It is a well-known, fact that five hundred chicks can be raised to broiler 
size on a piece of land which would be too small to keep 100 hens the year 
around. When chicks are small they do not require very much room and can 
be kept growing on a comparatively small piece of ground. To raise 200 
broilers on a city lot is not a very hard task as they are sold when ten or 
twelve weeks old, and during the time they are being fed they need just 
room enough to move about freely. 

It is estimated that it takes from ten to fifteen cents worth of feed to 
raise a broiler. Say it takes fifteen cent's worth. A nice broiler is worth 
anywhere from forty to fifty cents and in many cities brings sixty or seventy- 
five cents. The chicks can be hatched and got into market before very hot 
weather comes and they will bring in a good many dollars. There is not a 
large town or city in this country but an enterprising man could find a 
private market for from 500 to 1,000 broilers during the season. Once the 
people get a taste of a plump home-raised broiler they will not have any- 
thing else and the demand will grow all the time. 



FRANK POY, PROPRIETOR 27 



There is a rapidly growing demand for what is called "squab" chickens. 
These are little chickens weighing under one pound. They are sold when 
five or six weeks old and served at the highest priced restaurants. They bring 
as high as $1.50 a pair in New York city and in many smaller cities they 
bring from 75 cents to a dollar a pair. Where the market for this kind of 
chickens is built up the trade increases rapidly and a big business can be 
done on a small plot of ground. It costs about six or seven cents to raise 
a squab broiler and the profit is large. 

The only thing to do in raising broilers is to get good strong eggs from 
vigorous stock, keep the coops and yards clean, feed all the feed the chicks 
will eat and keep them supplied with pure fresh water. If lawn clippings 
or dandelion tops are procurable they make chicks grow very rapidly and 
a little plot of lettuce makes a lot of good chick feed. 

Plenty of feed, clean dry yards and pure water are the three things nec- 
essary in raising broilers and these can be supplied on almost any city lot. 

The broiler trade is a good one to look after. It gives one a chance to 
turn his money quickly and from his broilers he can select the very best 
and strongest to keep over for the next year. 

Many a man who works in a shop and has an ambitious wife might give 
her a chance to make enough money to dress herself and the "kiddies" by 
raising broilers in the back yard of their home. 



Line Breeding the Only Safe Plan 



Line-breeding properly followed is the only certain road to perfection in 
any direction, whether that be egg production or standard quality in shape 
and color. Line-breeding requires careful selection and constant study in 
order to produce a strain in which desirable characteristics will overcome 
and control the tendency to revert or "throw back" to some remote ancestor. 

No one who follows out-breeding ever knows what he is going to get in 
the progeny of his breeding pens. Fowls that are out-bred year after year 
are never as good layers nor as high scoring as those which have been line- 
bred in the proper manner. 

Every breed in the standard has been first produced by line-breeding, and 
all pure bred fowls would be much more perfecct than they are now if 
this system had been continued by those who took the breeds up as they were 
offered to the public. 

I am proud of the fact that I have been a consistent and persistent line- 
breeder for years. If I had not followed this system I could never have pro- 
duced the strains of fowls which I offer to the public. I have steadily kept 
practical value in view while breeding to standard requirements, and the 
many words of praise given my stock by those who have bought of me proves 
that I have taken the right road to reach the highest possible state of per- 
fection. Remember that in buying of me you buy stock and eggs which 
may be depended on to produce birds of a high class which are also layers 
of great productiveness. 



Our Great Layers 



Crescent Farm Birds are bred to comply with standard requirements as 
near as possible. But their laying qualities have not been overlooked, no 
labor or expense has been spared in building up and perfecting our strains; 
they are good winter layers and keep at it all summer; they are vigorous, 
active and handsome, excellent for introducing new blood, or as foundation 
stock. No better anywhere at any price. 

Many successful breeders and exhibitors owe their success to having 
started right with our prize-winning, heavy-laying strains. For years we 
have been perfecting our breeds, and can now offer you the best. 



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Line -Bred Layers 



We sometimes hear of 200 eggs being laid in one year by a single hen. 
What a contrast with the average egg production of all the hens in the United 
States, which is much less than 100 eggs per year. The contrast only goes to 
show what can be accomplished by keeping "bred-to-lay" stock. Selecting 
only known good layers for breeders each year and breeding these "in line" 
year after year, we can be sure at least to have a strain of persistent layers. 
This is the way the Crescent Poultry Farm breeding stock has been selected 
for years back, and consequently we can now boast of as fine "bred-to-lay" 
stock as is found on any poultry farm in the United States. We fell assured 
that birds of our strains introduced into any others in the country will 
greatly improve the egg production and the greater productiveness of the 
progeny will be noticeable at once. 



Good Stock 



Why is it that so many of those who start or undertake to establish 
themselves in the thoroughbred poultry business, undertake it with inferior 
stock? They are certainly laboring under a great mistake. It is out of the 
question to breed fine stock from ordinary fowls; indeed, it is a waste of 
time and money to undertake it. In starting one cannot be too careful as to 
the foundation he is laying, for on this depends his future success or failure. 
If one starts with poor stock, he may work for years and then have the same, 
as like begets like; of course, he may improve them to a certain extent, but 
it will be slow business. Good stock should be purchased from some reliable 
breeder, which is the first step toward success. Then, by taking one or more 
good poultry paper, so as to learn the proper ways of mating, feeding and 
caring for them, he may rest assured of having a flock of birds he will be 
proud of. 



Importance of a Thoroughbred Male 



The male is one-half of the breeding pen; some claim they are more. I 
have seen thoroughbred males crossed with common stock, and many of the 
young birds were so well marked it would take an expert to tell them 
from thoroughbreds. No breeder can succeed with poor stock. One setting 
of eggs from a first-class pen is worth more than a dozen settings from a 
common mating. Line-bred cockerels from the best strains are worth many 
dollars more for the foundation of a flock than poor ones. If a poor male is 
used, the half may spoil the whole. I can furnish you cockerels from the 
most famous sires that will build up your flock. As I keep a record of my 
matings I can at all times furnish my old customers with birds or eggs not 
related to the ones they formerly got. 



The Plymouth Rocks 



This is today the most popular general purpose breed that we have. It 
suits the American public better than any other breed, and it is no doubt 
true that there are more fowls of Barred Plymouth descent in this country 
than any other variety. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 29 



Plymouth Rocks are valuable just in proportion that they will make 
money for the breeder. The highest scoring bird in this variety would not 
suit my views unless it were capable of reproducing in its progeny fowls of 
high class, considered as Standard birds, and females of great laying quali- 
ties. I have believed for years that beauty and utility should go hand in 
hand in breeding poultry, and have selected my breeding stock with these 
ends in view. The result is I have Plymouth Rocks which are correct in 
shape and color and will produce eggs in great numbers. The color of Ply- 
mouth Rocks of the barred variety is hard to get, but my birds are noted 
for their good color as well as their plump, massive and solidly meated 
bodies. From my long experience as a breeder I have learned how to mate 
for best results, and from my pens the buyer may expect birds of the highest 
quality. 



The Wyandottes 



The Wyandottes are a close second to the Plymouth Rock in public favor, 
and they deserve all the praise that can be given them. The true Wyandotte 
is a bird of well rounded curves, thick of body, closely feathered, and a bird 
that is surprisingly heavy for its appearance. 

As originally constituted, this breed had in it the blood of the best lay- 
ing breeds, and I have endeavored to maintain and increase this disposition 
to produce eggs liberally, winter and summer. 

The Wyandotte is not quite as heavy as the Plymouth Rock, but it is a 
prime favorite with those who want fine-grained, tender, sweet and palatable 
poultry for table use. The eggs of the Wyandotte vary from a reddish brown 
to a pale, pinkish lilac. They are good size and in every way desirable eggs 
for the best markets. 

My Wyandottes have been bred in line for years, and have the most im- 
portant and valuable characteristics of the breed firmly fixed. My stock may 
be relied on to produce high-class and heavy-laying fowls, combining in 
themselves all the good qualities that breeders seek. In the markets Wy- 
andottes are becoming prime favorites, as they make a fine-appearing dressed 
fowl of the highest quality. I can confidently recommend my strain of Wy- 
andottes to those who desire the best that can be produced by a long course 
of careful selection. 



White Leghorns at Petaluma 



I have referred to the Petaluma egg farms above and the subject is large 
enough to make it worth while to give it a little more space. 

Petaluma is a little town something more than thirty miles north of San 
Francisco, California. Originally it was a rich farming section and the 
country was given over to raising grains and vegetables for the San Francisco 
markets. Gradually the land became less productive and the crops grew 
smaller. Where once thousands of bushels of potatoes were grown, the 
crops became so small that they were unprofitable. 

About this time some one began to raise chickens and sell eggs. This 
was found to be profitable and one after another of the farmers took up the 
poultry business until now there are probably a million and a half of laying 
hens in the Petaluma district, each of which is working to make the country 
richer and her owner independent. 

At first various breeds were kept around Petaluma but gradually the 
White Leghorn became the favorite, and now in a day's drive around this 
great egg producing center one will hardly see anything but White Leghorns. 
Over hills and through valleys I have driven, never once out of sight of 
hundreds of White Leghorns or out of hearing of the cheerful cackling of 
busy hens. 



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I remember standing on a hill top of a mile or two out from Petaluma and 
looking across a valley in which were kept 125,000 laying hens, these being 
divided among several egg-farmers, each owning a little farm — or ranch as 
farms are called in that country. White houses dotted the landscape and 
green trees added to the beauty of the scene, while up from the poultry 
houses came clearly the voices of a thousand hens proclaiming that they 
had done their duty for the day. 

I made many inquiries while at Petaluma and asked a lot of questions and 
I think I got pretty near the truth. It costs something more than a dollar 
to keep a hen a year there and she lays eggs enough to pay this feed bill 
and leave her owner a profit of close to $2 a year. This is clear money and 
the poultry-keeper at Petaluma who has a thousand hens may count upon 
getting about $2,000 a year after paying his feed bill. 

These Petaluma White Leghorns are kept in colony houses, almost alto- 
gether. They are fed largely on wheat and many flocks have a free run. 
This makes them healthy and hardy, because they get plenty of exercise. 

On the larger egg-ranches, the houses are set down in the fields some 
distance apart and given free range, each hen knowing her own house when 
she is ready to lay or it comes time to go to sleep. 

These Petaluma poultry-keepers are not keeping White Leghorns because 
they fancy their shape and color alone. They are keeping hens to make 
money. They have tried out all the breeds and they have selected White 
Leghorns because they believe they will lay more eggs for the quantity of 
feed they consume than any other variety. 

However, they are not quite unanimous in this. Besides the White Leg- 
horns, one will find a few nice flocks of Brown Leghorns about Petaluma 
and these have some very good" friends' there. 

Last fall nearly $45,000 worth of eggs were shipped from Petaluma 
in one day; and every day in the year, except Sunday, a steamer goes 
up from San Francisco and loads up with eggs and poultry for San Francisco, 
the Petaluma river giving a waterway between the two places. 

Here is a bit of country about twelve miles wide and perhaps twenty miles 
long which is producing more clear, clean money every year from poultry- 
raising than is produced in any other part of the country in the production 
of any crop, on an area of the same size. It is a work which does not de- 
pend on the weather. It matters not to the Petaluma breeder whether rains 
come or not, for his hens go on laying just the same. 

We hear about the profitable orange groves of California. They are not 
in it with the hens of Petaluma. Nor need the poultry-keeper go to Petaluma 
to make money from White Leghorns. In Central New York there is quite 
a large district where White Leghorns are raised by the thousand for eggs 
for market. Country and climate do not make so much difference as some 
people think. Whether in sunny Petaluma or under the wintry skies of New 
York, the White Leghorn makes money for her owner and her rival is her 
Brown Leghorn sister. Between the two there is not much chance to choose. 



Farm Raised Fowls 



This is an expression often used by poultrymen, but in many cases it does 
not mean anything. Birds that have farm range are healthy, large, and 
strong, and are, therefore, vigorous, and make good breeders. 

My demand for good stock became so great that for the past six years 1 
have made arrangements to keep some of my best stock on farms — but one 
variety allowed on each farm, and these birds are raised under ideal condi- 
tions and under my supervision. By making special inducements to my 
farm poultry raisers, you gei in these birds the very best that good care and 
careful mating can produce. 

• By my plan there is no possible mixing of breeds. Some of my farms, 
for instance, are devoted to Barred Rocks, and there are no other varieties 
kept on that place. Same is true of any other breed. In this way the fowls 



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do not have to be kept penned up so closely as is necessary when a large 
number of different varieties are kept at one place. The success of this plan 
in the past has been beyond my expectations, and this year finds me better 
than ever equipped to care for my patrons who will be satisfied only with 
the best. 

In short, my plan is the only successful way of properly conducting so 
large a business and at the same time giving to each and every patron that 
abundant and complete satisfaction which is his due. 



The 200 Edd Hen 



For several years I have been trying hard to increase the egg yield of my 
hens by selecting only the best layers for breeders each year. It has been 
proved beyond a doubt that where hens have been "bred in line" for heavy 
egg yield, they can be made to lay from 200 to 250 eggs each year. The 
average hen only- lays from 5 to 100 eggs per year, but by a careful system 
of line breeding, whole flocks can be made to average 200 eggs per year. 

In selecting male birds for a laying strain, one must be careful that he is 
the sun of a prolific layer. The best layers are also obtained where his sire 
was also, bred, from heavy laying stock. The results of my experiments 
have been. where I select my breeders each year from the heavy layers, the 
progeny shows a large per cent of heavy layers year after year. By this 
method of careful breeding I have improved the laying qualities of my stock 
to such an extent that I have whole flocks that will average 200 eggs per 
year. 




Model Poultry Plants 



I have a good many calls every year for suggestions as to poultry plants. 
The illustration on this page shows a plant where the fowls are kept on the 
colony plan. Such a plant can be built up a house at a time, as the business 
grows. If the houses are made 8x12 feet, each one will comfortably house 
twenty-five fowls. For a good looking poultry house I recommend the 
larger buildings shown in above cut; interior can be arranged to suit builder. 



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The Poultryman's Capital is Alive 



The poultryman's capital is alive. A flock of hens will produce eggs for 
three or more seasons, and then you can sell them for all they cost in the 
food markets of any town. They have paid you a profit all the time you have 
been keeping them, and then sell for all they have cost you. This can not 
be said of any other business on earth. Not only can you sell your original 
stock at a profit, but you can increase it a hundredfold every year without 
any trouble. 

I never knew a poultryman to fail to make money if he carried on his 
business in the right way. 

If you take pure-bred hens from good line-bred stock, such as I keep, you 
can keep the hens till the end of their third or fourth summer, make a big 
profit on keeping them, and sell them for breeders at twice as much as they 
have ever cost you for feed and care. 



Poultry Keeping as an Occupation for Women 



Of all outdoor work, I know of none better adapted to women than that 
of poultry culture. Here is an occupation that is not overcrowded. No one 
has a monopoly of the poultry business. Most women are equally, if not more, 
successful than men, because they are accustomed to occupying themselves 
with little things, and know the importance of patience, perseverance and 
little careful attentions punctually given. In rearing poultry, there is no 
danger of the business being overdone. Prices have been getting gradually 
better for the past five years. It is an industry that cannot be monopolized. 
The product is always ready cash just the minute you put it on the market, 
and it is a business that can be started with a very small capital. 

It is not absolutely necessary to live on a farm to raise poultry. There 
are many plants in cities and towns. By adopting modern, up-to-date 
methods, many broilers and hundreds of dozens of eggs can be produced 
on a small space of ground. An acre of land could be made to yield a hand- 
some profit, according to management. Even the dwellers on the village lot 
need not feel debarred from going into the business. 



The Most Profitable Fowl 



1 have freely said which I think are best all-around fowls, but I do not 
think these fowls are the most profitable ones for a good many localities. 
Where there is not a good market for poultry, the hen that lays the most 
eggs is the one that brings in the greater profit. I believe in egg farming 
for several reasons. First, eggs are always in demand and the egg farmer gets 
eggs every day in the year, and his money comes in regularly week after 
week, which is not the case in breeding poultry for market, raising grain or 
raising any kind of live stock. Second, eggs are easily sent a long distance 
to market at small cost and need no special preparation before ~being sold 
Neither do they easily spoil on the way, or lose weight as live stock does. 
Third, eggs may be kept for weeks in cool weather and for some time in 
any weather before spoiling, so the producer can wait for the best market. 

The egg farmer will have more or less chickens to sell, but these come in 
as extras and not as the most important product of the business. 



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Start with Line-Bred Stock 



The poultry business is like all other occupations — you must start right, 
no difference what branch you take up. While it may cost a trifle more, yet 
it will be money saved in the long run. It is like this: If you started from 
Des Moines to reach the Atlantic Coast, would you take a direct route or 
would you start west and travel a few hundred miles just because some one 
would furnish you with a half-fare ticket? If you are at all wise you can 
readily see that you would be farther away from your destination than had 
you not started at all, also causing delay and extra expense undoing what 
you had done wrong. Nothing gained only the knowledge that you had lost 
valuable time and money traveling the wrong road and in an opposite direc- 
tion from what you should have taken. It is better to start with the best, 
if only in a small way, raher than invest in "A WHOLE LOT" of inferior 
quality. "BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT, THEN GO AHEAD." I beg to say 
right here, if your start is made from the CRESCENT POULTRY FARM, 
there can be no mistake about it. 



Which is the Best Ail-Around Fowl 



We are often asked which we consider the best general purpose fowl. 
We believe the American class will more fully meet the demands of the 
person that wants to keep one variety, such as the Barred and White Rocks, 
White and Silver Laced Wyandottes; of course, there are other breeds, but 
the above named varieties are a long neck ahead in the American class. The 
Barred and White Plymouth Rocks are hard to beat for an all-around general 
purpose fowl, especially where they have been bred in line for laying. A 
general purpose fowl must have a plump carcass, when dressed, a quality 
and quantity of meat that will meet the demands of the market, and to be 
profitable they must be of a heavy laying strain, quick to mature and easy 
to raise. We have paid particular attention in selecting and breeding our 
various breeds for the qualities necessary to produce the most prolific layers, 
as well as those noted for their vigor, hardiness and standard marking, until 
they stand today without a rival in this respect. 



E£^s or Fowls to Start With 



We older breeders are often asked which is best, eggs or fowls, to start 
with. Now, this is a question that can not be answered very easily or satis- 
factorily without considerable thought and investigation, as circumstances 
have so much to do with it. 

If the purchaser has the means and is anxious to enjoy the fowls as soon 
as possible, why, of course, nothing but the fowls will do, as he cannot wait 
to get a start from eggs in his impatience and desire to see and care for the 
fowls. 

It is certainly the cheapest way to buy good eggs from an honest breeder; 
when a fair hatch is obtained and the chicks raised to maturity it is a very 
inexpensive way to get a start of the best stock, and you stand just as good 
a chance of raising something extra fine as he does; birds you can hardly 
buy of him for love or money. Suppose you only buy two settings of eggs 
and get a fair hatch. 

Quite often one has a chance of selling two or three cockerels in the fall 
which would more than pay the first cost of the eggs. 



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Edds for Incubator 



First grade, $7.00 per 100; $12.00 per 200. 
Second grade, $6.00 per 100; $10.00 per 200. 



I annually furnish large quantities of eggs to poultrymen who are just 
starting in to raise pure-bred poultry, and to men who are starting broiler 
plants. This is usually the cheapest, quickest and best way to make the 
start. I am especially well prepared to furnish eggs from the following va- 
rieties: Barred and White Rocks, Light Brahmas, Black Langshans, White 
Wyandottes, Silver Laced Wyandottes, White and Brown Leghorns, Pekin 
ducks. This grade of incubator eggs will be filled from our best pens, ex- 
cept Pen No. 1 of B. P. Rocks and special matings. 

We have another grade of incubator eggs that we can make up from the 
following pens at the rate of $6.00 per 100 or $10.00 per 200. These eggs 
are from Pens 4 and 5 of Barred Plymouth Rocks, Pen No. 2 of Light Brah- 
mas, Pen No. 2 of White Leghorns, and Pen N. 2 of Brown Leghorns. These 
birds are all good thoroughbreds, but do not score as high as the others. In 
ordering eggs for incubators in 100 lots you may select from any or ail va- 
rieties listed at the above named rates. 

When you are ordering eggs from second grade you will have to choose 
eggs from varieties included in that grade. 



My Prices 



My prices may seem high, yet they are very low, when the quality of 
stock is considered. I breed nothing but the best and guarantee everything 
I ship to be just as represented. You may be able to buy eggs for batching 
and fowls cheaper than I can sell, yet the price may not do to go by, as the 
quality of the stock may be cheap as well as the price. The price of an 
article is always based on its intrinsic value, and not on the size of it. 

In buying eggs for hatching it is not the eggs you are paying for, but the 
stock they are expected to produce. In laying the foundation for a flock it 
pays to start right, as it costs but a little more, and after you get the start it 
costs no more to raise good thoroughbreds than scrubs. Inferior fowls as 
breeders are dear at any price, even as a gift. 

A setting of eggs that will produce choice, high-scoring stock, even if but 
a few of them, is worth many dozen from inferior or mongrel stock. 



Mixed Orders in Two Parts 



Orders for eggs for one setting or more can be made up of two or more 
varieies if wanted that way, providing the price of each variety is the same. 



Terms 



Cash must accompany all orders; nothing sent C. O. D. Send money >y 
Draft, Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order or Registered Letter. 



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New Blood Every Year 



Every year I change my matings, thus making it possible for me to supply 
all my old customers with new blood, thus keeping the stock strong and 
vigorous and the eggs fertile. 

I have two specialties— one is first-class fowls, and the other is absolute 
satisfaction. Those who secure my first specialty are always certain to get 
the second. 

Your success means my success, hence I use all the means at my com- 
mand to the end that you shall be provided with birds and eggs of such qual- 
ity and value as shall make success a sure thing. 



Express Companies 



I can ship by the Wells-Fargo, Adams, American, United States, Pacific 
and Southern express companies. No other city has better shipping facilities 
than Des Moines, Iowa. There -is just one rate, and that is the same to one 
and all. It does not matter whether it is paid at this end or when the package 
is received, the charge will be the same. Neither can you get better rates 
from one company than another. All express companies have the same 
rates between any given points. These rates are adhered to, and it is en- 
tirely useless to ask for any reduction. Generally speaking, express rates 
are very reasonable. I pack eggs and crate fowls so they will go at the 
least possible expense and yet be safe from injury on the way. 



Feeding for E^^ Production 



Hem, can not lay eggs without they are supplied the material from which 
eggs are made. A hen is only a machine for making eggs out of the mate- 
rial which she finds in her feed, and unless she is given the proper feed she 
can not manufacture eggs. 

Eggs are composed of lime, which goes to make the shell; albumen, 
which is the white, and fat and mineral salts of various kinds, which are 
found in the yolk. We can furnish the lime by giving our hens oyster 
shells, ground bone or even raw limestone in the form of grit. For the 
albumen we must look to wheat, oats, barley, oil meal, milk, meat and other 
substances. For the material for the yolk we will feed corn, buckwheat and 
other fattening feed. All feeds contain a portion of the materials that go 
to make both white and yolk, but some are richer in one and some in the 
other. Even grain contains some lime, but not enough to furnish shell ma- 
terial for a large number of eggs. 

The real secret of a large egg production is a large variety of feed, plenty 
of fresh water, for an egg is largely water, grit to keep the digestion good, 
and plenty of green feed in some form. 

Hens that run about a farm pick up enough meat feed in the summer, in 
the shape of worms, grubs and insects, so they need not be fed this. If 
they are kept in a yard, meat in some form must be fed for the best results. 
Beef scraps are valuable for this purpose. 

Hens that have the run of the fields get green stuff enough in summer, 
but must be supplied in winter. Give them cabbages, beets or turnips 
chopped so they can swallow them, or simply cut in large pieces so they can 
pick them apart. Cut clover or alfalfa, or clover or alfalfa meal is very 
good for laying hens, as both have in them a large proportion of the elements 
that go to make the white of eggs. Give the hens a warm place to sleep. 
Keep them in the house when the weather is very cold, and feed them 
grain in litter on the floor, so as to give them exercise. Keep the house free 
from lice and mites by using Electric Lice Killer or Crescent Insect Powder, 
and you will have no trouble in getting eggs all the year. 



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If you want pullets to lay during the first winter, hatch them as early as 
you can, and push them as rapidly as possible, so as to get them to laying be- 
fore cold weather begins. If they do not begin laying before really cold 
weather comes on, they are likely to put it off until the next spring. 

Feed liberally, but make the hens dig their grain out of a bed of straw. 
Don't be afraid of getting the hens too fat, if you make them take plenty of 
exercise. Fat hens lay well unless they are lazy fat. Keep their muscles in 
good condition by exercise and they will lay even if they are fat enough to 
eat. 



A Cloud of Witnesses 



I do not ask the reader of this book to take my word for what I say about 
my stock of fowls. It is very easy to make claims but it is quite another 
thing to prove the claims. I want you to read the letters from my customers 
which appear here and there in this book. I have hundreds of these letters 
every year. They were written to me because I satisfied the writers of them. 
They show exactly how I treat those who do business with me. Every one 
of these letters is genuine and I will give a thousand dollars to any one who 
will call for one letter which I publish which was not written to me by the 
person whose name and address appear with it. Sometimes we see a lot of 
letters of this kind in catalogues without the names and address of the al- 
leged writers. These furnish no proof whatever. I give the names and ad- 
dresses and any one is at liberty to write and ask any of those whose names 
appear in this book about their dealings with me. If any do write to those 
who have written me I would suggest that they enclose a self-addressed en- 
velope, as it would not be quite fair to ask them to take the trouble to write 
and pay the postage on the answers. 

I have letters running back to the time I began business — hundreds of 
them — and the best evidence that I treat my customers squarely is to be 
found right among the people with whom I have been doing business. My 
catalogue has been imitated, my way of doing business has been used as a 
model but no one can furnish as many and as strong letters as I can that I 
give my customers their full money's worth — and then some. 



Special Matings 



I have some special matings of the following varieties of fowls: 

White Plymouth Rocks. Rose Comb White Leghorns. 

Buff Plymouth Rocks. Rose Comb Brown Leghorns. 

Silver Laced Wyandottes. Light Brahmas. 

Single Comb White Leghorns. Black Langshans. 

Buff Cochins. Single Comb Brown Leghorns. 

White Wyandottes. 

These birds are selected from a large number and anything that did not 
show up extra good was rejected. Each one is a good individual specimen 
and as near perfect as it is possible to get them. I have a number of calls 
every year from people who want to get a sitting or two of eggs from some- 
thing extra good from which to raise exhibition stock. It is to supply this 
demand that I have made these special matings. 

They are no better blood or better layers than my other matings, yet they 
will probably produce a larger per cent of show birds. I sell eggs only by 
the sitting from these matings. Price $2.00 per fifteen; $3.50 per thirty. 
Extra good Cockerels from special matings a matter of correspondence. 



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Barred Plymouth Rocks 



This breed is as solid as its name; they stand acknowledged as the best 
general purpose fowl in the world today; they are quick to develop and make 
plump, juicy broilers at the age of eight and ten weeks. They are a great 
favorite with market poultrymen, who breed this variety more extensively 




than all other pure breeds combined. They are excellent all year around as 
layers, and as a fancier's fowl have reached a popularity never before known. 
The BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK is always the largest class at the large 
poultry shows, and strictly choice specimens nearly always command a higher 
price than any other breed, which proves their sterling merit. Utility and 
actual worth are the basis of this popularity, and make the Plymouth Rock 
A BIRD OF DESTINY. 

My chicks this year are the best I ever raised, and no doubt will be heard 
from in the show room, as I usually furnish customers more prize winners 
than any other breeder. If you want the REAL THING, genuine Blue Barred 
Plymouth Rocks, send your order for stock and eggs to the Crescent Farm 
and you will not be disappointed. The accompanying cut is a good repre- 
sentation of the Barred Rocks that head my No. 1 pens. I have been unusu- 
ally successful this year in securing the best individual birds that I have ever 
had. 1 1 i 

Pen No. 1, cockerel matings, is headed by cockerels with beautiful blue 
bars running down to the skin on every part of the body, of good carriage, 
typical Rock shape, short yellow legs, bay eyes, yellow beak, and best all- 
around birds that can be had. They were selected from many hundred speci- 



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mens. The females were selected with great care, with good Rock shape, 
and barred to the skin. If you want to raise some fine cockerels to head 
your pens with, you want to order eggs from Pen No. 1 — eggs, $2.00 per 
fifteen; $3.50 per thirty. 

Pens Nos. 2 and 3 are standard matings, headed by large, vigorous cock- 
erels and both hens and cockerels have been selected with utmost care, that 
size and finely feathered markings might be as near perfect as possible. They 
are barred to the skin in narrow, well-defined bars. We expect to get true 
Barred Rocks of fine quality from these pens, if there is any virtue in proper 
mating. Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 
per $100; $12.00 per 200. 

Single birds, $3.00.; pairs, $5.00; trios, male and two females, $7.00; pen, 
male and four females, $11.50; pen, male and ten females, $24.00. 



WAR DEPARTMENT. 
POST OF ZAMBOANQA 

OPPICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER 



Zamboanga. P. I, July 5th, 1907. 

Mr. Prank Poy, 

DesMoines, Iowa. 

Sir:- 

I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of 

the fowls sent me. 

They all arived in the very best of condition, considering 
the length of time they were on the way, and I shall, in the near 
future order several pens of fowls, as I am endeavoring to get 
together a good collection of fowls of all descriptions. 



Very sincerely yours, 



aj\AA-^LA-AJ>% 



PRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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White Plymouth Rocks 

Fischel and My Own Strains. 

No variety of chickens has come to the front so fast as the White Plymouth 
Rocks. They are snow white in plumage, have beautiful red combs and wattles. 
The legs, beak and skin are a rich yellow and have no black pin feathers in 
dressing. They mature early and their weight is the same as the Barred. They 
breed truer to color than any of the new breeds. Their large size and stately 
carriage is admired by all. I am breeding this year from the Fishel and other 
strains. My breeding pens are headed by pure white, large, strong and deep 
bodied cockerels. My price is very low considering the quality of the stock. 
Other breeders ask from $3.00 to $5.00 a sitting for eggs from the same strain. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 100; 
$12.00 per 200. For special mating of White Plymouth Rocks see page 35. Single 
birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and four hens, $11.50; pen, 
one cock and ten hens, $24.00. 

Note. — Newly hatched White Plymouth Rock chicks are almost invariably of 
a maltese blue, smutty color, or of a greyish cast, but they will feather white 
and stay white, making a very beautiful as well as a profitable fowl. 



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Buff Rocks 



Plymouth Rocks are so well and favorably known that when the Buff 
variety was brought prominently before the breeders of this country a few 
years ago, they were in great demand from the start. As their name im- 
plies, they are of a rich buff color throughout. They have clean, yellow legs 
of medium length and are well adapted to both the fancier and the market 
poultryman. They have the same general characteristics as all their ances- 
tors, except color. They have quite large, heavy, nice, well-rounded bodies, 
and a bright yellow skin. They have clean legs of medium length; are well 
adapted to both the fancier and market poultryman. I have been breeding 
Buff Plymouth Rocks for years, and I have raised some excellent birds this 
season. I always use great care in selecting my breeding stock. I only 
select birds that have good shape and color and of a heavy laying strain. If 
you are looking for something good in Buff Rocks, send your orders for 
stock and eggs to the Crescent Farm. Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per 
thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 100; $12.00 per 200. For special 
mating of Buff Plymouth Rocks, see page 35. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, 
$5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and four hens, $11.50; pen, one cock and 
ten hens, $84,00. 



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Single Comb Buff Orpingtons 



The Single Comb Buff Orpingtons are becoming a very popular breed. They 
have been a leading breed in England for a number of years; in fact, they are as 
popular there as the Barred Plymouth Rocks are in America. As a general pur- 
pose fowl they are very good. They have a rich buff plumage. As good as any 
of the buff varieties. They are also good layers. 

Thev have nice, well-rounded bodies and a bright yellow skin, and have all 
the good market qualities as well as the laying qualities. They are very quiet 
and tame, and make good mothers. My breeding stock of this variety is of the 
verv best Most of the parent stock was imported from England, and all of my 
breeders have good individual merit. They are, without doubt, a most excellent 
breed Bees from Pen No. 1, imported stock, $2.00 per fifteen and $3.50 per 
thirty- Pen No 2 domestic or American raised, $1.50 per fifteen, $3.00 per thirty, 
$4 00 ber forty-five, $7.00 per hundred. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $6 00; tno, 
$8!00; pen, one cock and four hens, $12.50; pen. one cock and ten hens, $25.00. 



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Light Brahmas 



Felch, Gold Coin and Shaw Strains. 

The Light Brahma, by unchallenged right, stands at the head of all thor- 
oughbred poultry. During the past thirty years, while all other breeds have 
had their "ups and downs," the Light Brahmas have stood their own ground, 
and today they are as much praised and as highly recommended to the gen- 
eral breeder as they were thirty years ago. Any breed that- can stand the 
test of rivalry so long and still continue to satisfy and please the thousands 
breeding them must have qualities of a high order. They are the largest of 
all our poultry, and furnish more pounds of flesh and eggs in twelve months 
than any other breed of fowls on earth. They are well adapted for all pur- 
poses, and are so gentle, handsome and practical one cannot help but like 
them. I have the largest and best stock of Light Brahmas in this country. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen, $3.00 per thirty, $4.00 per forty-five, $7.00 per 
100, $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Light Brahmas see page 35. Sin- 
gle birds, 3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and four hens, 
$11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $24. 0". 



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Buff Cochins 



These are large, massive fowls, profusely feathered, and have a very fine 
carriage. They are very good layers, and will, under favorable circum- 
stances, compare well with the Leghorn class for winter laying, while for a 
market fowl they far exceed them. Like all Asiatics, they are rather later 
maturing than those of the American class, hut I have taken great pains and 
spared no expense to produce Buffs which are of special merit in early ma- 
turing, plumage and size. They are of a rich buff or golden color. They are 
heavily feathered and well adapted to cold climates. They breed true to 
color and are very docile fowls; can be easily yarded by low fence of wire 
netting. In the Cochin line I have stock above the average. The foundation 
stock came direct from G. W. Mitchell, of Bristol, Conn., and by investiga- 
tion you will find this strain generally wins the lion's share of prizes at the 
Boston and New York shows. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen, $3.00 per thirty, $4.00 per forty-five, $7.00 per 
100, $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Buff Cochins, see page 35. 
Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and four hens, 
$11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $24.00. 



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Black Langshans 



Langshans were originally imported from China and are today one of the 
most popular fowls of the Orient. No variety of fowls ever gained popularity 
faster since their importation. The Langshans are large, stylish birds, with 
full, broad breasts, small wings, and erect, small combs; their bright red 
wattles, ear lobes and combs glowing against their glossy 'black feathers, 
form a striking contrast. They attain maturity as early as any of the large 
breeds, lay large, rich eggs the year around, and are not persistent sitters. 
They make an excellent table fowl, for delicacy of flavor, white flesh and 
skin especially. They are large in size and well built, and make good 
mothers, continuously looking after the young. Chicks when first hatched 
are about half white which is no indication of impurity of stock. I pride 
myself on having the best Langshans in the land. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Black Langshans, see page 35. 
Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and four hens, 
$11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $24.00. 



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Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds 



I Breed Both Rose and Single Combs. 

No breed which has been brought out in recent years has met with a 
warmer reception than the Rhode Island Reds. This is a distinctively Ameri- 
can utility breed and at the same time it has no superior as a fancier's fowl. 

The Rhode Island Reds originated without any set purpose. They are the 
growth of years and gradually developed out of the practical experience of 
men who kept chickens to make money from the eggs they laid, without 
caring anything about blood and breeding. 

Down in the southern part of the little state of Rhode Island is a district 
known as Little Compton. This district lies on the shore of the Atlantic 
Ocean, exposed to the bleak winds of winter and the scorching sun of sum- 
mer. The land is poor and rocky and the soil returns but little when an 
attempt is made to produce farm crops. The inhabitants of this district were 
compelled to look to some other means of getting a living besides raising 
crops of grain and hay, and being near good markets they took up poultry- 
raising as the most available business from which to make money. 



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In some way they began to believe that a red chicken was hardier than 
one of any other color. It is not necessary to inquire whether this belief has 
a good foundation. We know that in that country only a hardy breed of 
fowls could live and return a profit to the owners. Not many fowls surpass 
the Rhode Island Reds for beauty, especially the male, with his rich red 
color and erect carriage. They grow rapidly and pullets begin laying when 
quite young. As a utility fowl they are as good as grow, and some people 
believe much better than other varieties. I will say that they are one of our 
best general purpose breeds. 

They have yellow legs and skin and make excellent broilers and roasters. 
They are very hardy and fine winter layers. My original stock was direct 
from the best eastern breeders and I have been trying to improve it all the 
time. 

Eggs, $2.00 per fifteen; $3.50 per thirty; $4.50 per forty-five; $8.00 per 
100. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $6.00; trios, $8.00. One male and ten fe- 
males, $25.00. 



How Far Can E^ds Be Shipped With Safety? 
Distance Cuts No Figure 



How far can eggs be shipped with safety? We are constantly receiving 
letters asking this question. We have shipped eggs to all parts of the 
United States, Canada, and Mexico, and in the majority of cases good hatches 
result. 

Honolulu, Hawaii, June 20, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I will now report the results of the eggs bought of you. Eleven of 
the turkey eggs hatched, and forty-five of the chicken eggs. The eggs were not 

very fertile, but, consid- 
ering the long distance 
they had to go, I think 
they did very well, and 
am well satisfied. 
Very truly, 

A. COOKE. 




NOTE. — It took five 
days for these eggs to 
reach San Francisco ; 
then they had to wait 
three days more for a 
boat, and it takes from 
six to eight days by 
boat from San Francisco 
to Hawaii. Yet some 
people, only living a few 
hundred miles away, 
will write and want to 
know if I think eggs 
will hatch when shipped 
so far. 



Hartley, Iowa, May 24, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, D'es Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir : — We 
have taken off two 
hatches from our 
incubator and we 
have 300 fine little 
chicks. Are well 
pleased with the 
machine. We have 
not heard of any- 
one else having as 
good a hatch with 
their machine as 
we do with our 
machine. 

Very truly, 
Mrs. M. Albright. 




Clinton, Okla., 
Mar. 22, 1908. 

Mr. Frank Foy, 
Des Moines, la. 

Dear Sir: — I re- 
ceived the coop 
of chickens all 
right and I am 
pleased with 
them. Will know 
just where to 
send and get 
good ones after 
this. Very truly, 
Miss Carrie Hale. 




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White Wyandottes 



The original White Wyandottes in this country were sports from the Silver 
Laced variety, therefore they are all purely Wyandotte blood, which can not 
be said of any other of the varieties except this one and the one from which 
it has descended. 

White Wyandottes have been before the public almost as long as the older 
variety from which they originated, and they have been in the hands of fan- 
ciers who have bred them up to a great perfection of form and color. Starting 
with Hawkins and Dustin strains I have bred for the best in these two great 
strains, and have built up a strain of my own which has no superior in this 
country. 

I annually furnish more prize winners to my customers than any other 
western breeder. If you want eggs that will produce stock with low, curv- 
ing combs, well corrugated, bay eyes, short backs, broad and heavy breast, 



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snow-white plumage, with yellow legs and beaks — if you want the best the 
country affords, send your orders for stock and eggs to the Crescent Farm 
and you'll not be disappointed. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special mating of White Wyandottes, see page 35. 
Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and four hens, 
$11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $24.00. 



Silver Laced Wyandottes 



For Illustrations see cover of this book. 

Sometime in the '70's, poultrymen began to hear about a new breed of 
fowls. These were called "Hambletonians," "Ambrights," "Sebright Cochin" 
and "American Sebrights," by different ones who offered them for sale. Un- 
der these various names, the new fowl attracted wide attention on account 
of its curious and beautiful color. The cocks were silvery white on neck and 
wings, the feathers of the neck having a black stripe down the center. The 
breast was white, each feather having a diamond-shaped white spot in the 
center. The saddle feathers were the same color as those of the hackle and 
the main tail feathers were black. The hens of the new breed had neck 
feathers striped black and white but the remainder of the body was covered 
with curiously laced feathers, with a diamond spot of white and an edging 
or "lacing" of brilliant black. 

At once -they sprang into almost universal popularity and Wyandottes 
were sought by every one. Unscrupulous breeders made crosses and sold the 
mongrels as pure-bred and the breed suffered by this, but it had such sterl- 
ing merit that nothing could stay its progress and today the Silver Laced 
Wyandotte has more friends than in any previous period in its whole history. 

As a market fowl it has a record of topping the most particular market 
in this country. As a layer it has twice in five years carried off the prize 
in the great annual Australian laying competitions, which are carried on 
under government supervision. In each of the competitions, where 100 hens 
were kept under the strictest supervision for one year, the egg records ran 
considerably over an average of 200 eggs in a year for each of the hens in 
the winning pens. In this country a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen has made 
a record of 804 eggs in four consecutive years an average of 201 eggs per 
year, a record never before equalled by any hen of any breed. 

For any purpose for which poultry is kept the Silver Laced Wyandotte is 
always ready to make a good showing. It is the pride of American fanciers 
and a delightful bird to handle and own, as it is quiet and tame and not 
seeking mischief. 

My strain of Silver Laced Wyandottes is descended from the best blood 
in the country. A good many strains of Silver Laced Wyandottes in this 
country have in them a strain of English blood introduced by English poul- 
trymen, which gives them a tendency to run to too much white. This foreign 
blood was unwisely brought into the flocks of this country and often results 
in poor chicks. My fowls are purely American and straight in breeding. 
Line-bred and bred to lay, my Wyandottes are the kind that make profits for 
their owners. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Silver Laced Wyandottes, see 
page 35. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and 
four hens, $11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $24.00. 



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White Orpingtons 



Cook and Other Strains. 

No breed of fowls that ever were introduced into this country grew so 
rapidly in popularity and made such a success as the Orpingtons. They 
were originated by William Cook, an English poultry breeder, and intro- 
duced into this country by him. They met with a very hearty reception and 
at once made many friends and now they are found in large numbers all 
over this country and attract as much attention at the big shows as any 
other breed. 

The Orpingtons are very deep and broad in body with heavy thighs, thick 
wide breasts, short shanks and a general appearance of massiveness that 
gives them character and assures them friends. Short of wing they are 
easily confined by a low fence. Carrying a large amount of meat on the 
parts of the body considered the choicest they are favorites in every market, 
and added to these good qualities they are among the very best winter 
layers we have. 

The White Orpington is one of the favorite varieties of this most popular 
breed. Within the last year the highest price ever paid for a pen of fowls 
was paid for five White Orpingtons and birds of this variety which are good 
enough to win in the large shows bring as high prices as those of any other 
breed. 

As an all-round fowl for home or market use or for the production of big 
fine-flavored eggs the White Orpington does not need to stand back for any 
other variety in the Standard. 

I have been studying these fowls for several years and at last concluded to 
meet the demand for them by taking them on with my other varieties. 
The fowls from which I offer eggs this year are from fine strains of vigorous 
and healthy stock and any one who desires to begin with this breed will 
find if he gets eggs from me he will have stock to start with that will give 
him a chance to get right up in front as a breeder. I am going to offer eggs 
at a moderate price, according to my usual custom. My prices this year are 
$2.50 per fifteen; $4.50 per thirty; $6.50 per forty-five. For incubator use 
I will sell eggs at $12.00 per 100. 

Stock, single birds, $4.00; pairs, $7.00; trios, $10.00. 



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Ideal Golden Wyandottes 



Golden Wyandottes are an exact counterpart of the White and Silver 
Laced, the only difference being in color. They are fine layers the year 
around if properly cared for. The color in the Golden Wyandotte is a 
golden hay in place of the white lacing in the Silver Laced Wyandottes. 
This breed has many friends, and is a good variety for anyone to breed 
who wants beautiful fowls. There are very few breeds that will breed as 
true to color as the Golden Wyandotte. They make good mothers and good 
sitters, but are not persistently broody. Chicks are quite hardy, grow fast, 
and mature early. My foundation stock was purchased direct from the best 
breeders in the east, whose birds have won hundreds of prizes at the leading 
shows. In general utility, Golden Wyandottes are much the same as the 
other varieties of Wyandottes, the only difference being in color. If you de- 
sire to start with the best stock in the country, you will make no mistake 
if you order your eggs from the Crescent Farm. 

Price: Eggs, $2.00 per 15; $3.75 per 30; $5.00 per 45; $8.00 per 100. 

Price: Stock, single birds, $3.00; pairs, $6.00; trios, $8.00; pen, 1 male 
and 10 females, $24.00. 



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Rose Comb White Leghorns 



Rose Comb White Leghorns are identical with the Single Comb variety 
except they have a low rose comb. They begin laying when about four 
months old, and if properly attended to will furnish eggs the year around. 
No fowl shows greater beauty on a green lawn than the White Leghorns, 
owing to their graceful style, fine, large, red combs and pure white plumage; 
finer birds than are in our pens are hard to find. If you want to improve 
your stock, send your orders for stock and eggs to the Crescent Farm. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Rose Comb White Leghorns, see 
page 35. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and 
four hens, $11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $22.00. 



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Single Comb White Leghorns 



There has been considerable dispute about the origin of the White Leg- 
horn. It was claimed at one time that the original white birds, were imported 
from Leghorn, Italy, but there are no White Leghorns in Italy, so the in- 
ference is that they came from White Sports from the original Brown Leg- 
horn. This might easily happen as all colored birds occasionally produce 
white ones and these usually reproduce their color when they are bred to- 
gether. 

Their origin is not of great importance. What the poultryman wants to 
know is what they can be depended upon to do when it comes to breed- 
ing them. 

The poultryman wants to know what he may expect in the way of profits 
and with this question in mind he can make no mistake if he selects Single 
Comb White Leghorns. 



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In another place in this book I have told about the White Leghorns of 
Petaluma, California, and Central New York state. The great egg-farmers 
of these two districts, one in a warm and sunny climate and the other in a 
climate where zero weather and very deep snows are common in winter, 
show that the White Leghorn is adapted to any part of this country and 
profitable wherever it is kept. Like its Brown ancestors, the White Leghorn 
is an "egg machine" that works constantly and at high speed. The eggs 
are pure white, weigh an average of two ounces each and are produced the 
year through except during the molting period and even then White Leg- 
horns do not stop laying altogether. 

The White Leghorn is a non-sitter, very few of the hens ever offering 
to sit. They begin to lay at five months or sooner. At the New York experi- 
ment station, White Leghorn pullets began to lay at a little over four months 
of age. These pullets had been forced forward with all possible speed as an 
attempt was being made to see how young they could bring pullets into lay- 
ing form. 

The plumage of the White Leghorn is a clear, brilliant white throughout. 
The plumage of the cocks shines like a frozen snowbank, while that of the 
hens is the clear, transparent white one sees in newly fallen snow. 

The beaks, shanks and skin are bright yellow, the combs and wattles 
bright red and large, the ear lobes are pure white and the eyes bright red- 
dish bay. These birds have a remarkable proud bearing and their shape is 
very graceful. The illustration of a trio of White Leghorns in connection 
with this shows, as well as a picture can, their shape; but it is deficient in 
the coloring and in the lively appearance, which no picture can show. Good 
foragers, hardy, alive every minute, a flock of Single Comb White Leghorns 
earns money for its owner every day in the year. 

The Single Comb White Leghorn is a bred-to-lay fowl and I have been 
breeding my strain for eggs for several years. They are so easily bred to 
color that I am able to pay more attention to egg-laying qualities and this 
makes it possible to improve them more rapidly than any other breed. I 
have enough so I shall be able to fill all the orders I receive promptly from 
the best stock in this country. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special matings of Single Comb White Leghorns, 
see page 35. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock 
and four hens, $11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $22.00. 




Mullikin, Mich., June 19, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — Enclosed you will find a 
photograph of myself and machine. 
Those chicks are the Barred Rocks and 
Golden Wyandottes hatched from the 
eggs I purchased of you. I hatched 
114 fine chicks from the two hundred 
eggs you shipped to me, and am per- 
fectly satisfied with them. I took off 
my fourth and last hatch this season 
yesterday. There were 172 healthy 
chicks from the 240 eggs. Everyone 
who is interested in this business says 
this is a most remarkable hatch. We 
have 350 chicks now. The first hatch 
came March 1st and now weighs from 
1| to 2 pounds each. We like our ma- 
chine better every time ue use it. We 
shall certainly recommend the Frank 
Foy incubator and brooders to every- 
one. Yours respectfully, 

C. M. HILL. 



Albany, Wis., April 8, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I received the eggs to-day 
in fine shape. They are fine looking 
eggs, and I must say I never saw eggs 
packed so well. Thanking you for 
prompt shipment. 

Yours respectfully, 

JOSEPH TROWL. 



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Single Comb Brown Leghorns 



The acknowledged queen of the practical egg laying breeds is the Brown 
Leghorn, when judged by the standard of the greatest number of marketable 
eggs produced at least cost. Not only are the hens persistent layers, but they 
are extremely active foragers and waste no time in sitting. Like a good 
milch cow they put little fat upon their bones, but all surplus nourishment 
to egg production. The cost of growing them is comparatively light; no 
more, perhaps, than one-half that of Brahma or Cochin. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Single Comb Brown Leghorns, 
see page 35. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock 
and four hens, $11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $22.00. 



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Rose Comb Brown Leghorns 



For a handsome bird and for egg producers, the Leghorn stands at the 
head. There is no breed of fowjs that lay so many eggs with -little feed. 
Both the Rose and Single Comb Leghorn were originally imported from Leg- 
horn, a seaport in Italy (hence their name). The Rose and Single Comb 
varieties are exactly alike in every respect excepting the comb. The Rose 
Comb Leghorns are of a medium size, have beautiful gray plumage, white 
ear lobes and yellow legs are symmetrical in form, and very attractive and 
pleasing in appearance, are very hardy, and chicks are easily raised on free 
range. They are good foragers, and pullets lay at an early age. For good 
plumage and heavy layers, our stock can not be excelled. 

Eggs, $1.50 per fifteen; $3.00 per thirty; $4.00 per forty-five; $7.00 per 
100; $12.00 per 200. For special mating of Rose Comb White Leghorns, see 
page 35. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one cock and 
four hens, $11.50; pen, one cock and ten hens, $22.00. 



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-""^V *"" £ 9 



English Red Caps 



The Red Caps are a hardy race of fowls which came to American breeders 
from Derbyshire, England, where they have been known for many years as 
unrivaled layers of richly flavored eggs. The true value of these fowls as 
egg producers, is very little known in this country. A few years ago we 
used to see them at eastern shows and they bid fair to become well known 
and appreciated, but of late they have been exhibited but little. 

They have been roughly described by some Hamburg fanciers as coarse 
Golden Spangled Hamburgs, and truly in plumage they do resemble a care- 
lessly bred Hamburg, having the old time, moon-shaped spangles on a dark 
reddish bay ground color. The indications might lead us to believe that both 
the Red Caps and Golden Spangled Hamburgs trace to the same ancestry. 
There was a time when the Hamburgs were known as Lancashire Mooneys, 
a name suggesting the moon shaped spangle of the Red Cap female. There 
is a wider difference in the color of the male and female of the Red Cap than 
in the Hamburg, the breast of the male of the former being often solid black, 
and the tail also is unbroken in its glossy black color, while the surface 
color of the Hamburg has been bred into a large spangle at the end of the 
feathers in both sexes. The ear lobes of the two races, as they are now, are 
entirely different. The Red Cap with pendulous red lobes, the Hamburg with 
large flat lobes of spotless white. Eggs, $2.50 per fifteen; $4.50 per thirty; 
$6.50 per forty-five. Single birds, $4.00; pair $7.00; trio, .$10.00. 



Silver Creek, Neb., March 10, 1909. 
Mr. Prank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

D'ear Sir: — Your incubator arrived 
the other day all O. K. and will say it 
is I am sure the best machine in this 
part of the country. It is easy to set 
up ready for use and a well made ma- 
chine. "Will send for some eggs soon. 
Yours truly, 

MRS E. W. BELLIN. 



Weatherford, Okla., March 13, 1909. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I received chickens all 
right. We are more than pleased with 
them. Have had them three weeks to- 
day and they have laid 13 eggs al- 
ready. I did not expect to get an egg 
for at least three weeks. We are well 
satisfied. Respectfully, 

M. O. BURNETT. 



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White Faced Black Spanish 



The White Faced Black Spanish fowls belong to the Mediterranean class. 
They are a non-sitting breed, and are as hardy as the Asiatics. The Span- 
ish are much larger than Leghorns, being as heavy as Wyandottes. As 
layers they are not surpassed by the Leghorns. They lay a large, white egg, 
and lots of them. Their plumage is a rich, glossy black throughout. Their 
combs and wattles are red, and their white faces and lobes peculiar to the 
breed contrast with their black plumage. Chicks grow very fast, maturing 
at an early age. Their meat is fine grained, tender and sweet. If you want 
to get a start of the best White Faced Black Spanish the country affords, 
send your order for stock and eggs to the Crescent Poultry Farm. My sup- 
ply is limited, but will have plenty to supply my egg trade. Eggs, $2.00 per 
sitting; $4-00 for two sittings; $5.00 for forty-five, or $10.00 per 100. Sin- 
gle birds $3.00; pairs, $6.00; trios, $8.00. 




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Cornish Indian Games 



This is one of the most popular varieties. It is a good general purpose 
fowl, having the qualities of the market fowl, i. e., compactness, yellow 
legs, heavy weight, from which there is but little waste in dressing, and, 
being a quick grower, they produce a fine broiler in a short time, because 
they have short feathers, the nutriment required to put feathers on other 
breeds going to flesh, which is more juicy and tender in this breed than in 
a young turkey. Their breasts are very full. The Indian Game hens are 
good sitters and mothers, and the young chicks are very hardy. In color, 
the fowls are quite pretty, the bright brown shafts and glossy green lacing 
make a beautiful contrast. 

I have been breeding Cornish Indian Games for years, and I started with 
the best the country afforded. I have many birds for sale, and will be in 
good shape to furnish eggs that will produce stock that cannot fail to please 
the most exacting person. Pen No. 1 are from imported stock, and I believe 
they are as near perfect in markings as it is possible to breed them. Eggs 
from imported stock, Pen No. 1, $2.50 per fifteen; '$4.00 per thirty; $6.00 
per forty-five; $11.00 per 100. Pen No. 2, — eggs, $2.00 per fifteen; $3.50 
per thirty; $5.00 per forty-five; $10.00 per 100. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, 
$6.00; trios, $8.00; pen, one male and four females, $12.00; one male and 
ten females, $25.00. 



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Silver Spangled Hamburgs 



The Silver Spangled Hamburgs are one of the most beautiful varieties 
that can be found on the poultry list. No one can pass a flock of them 
without a glance of admiration. For beauty they are unsurpassed, and 
too much could not be said of this beautiful breed. As egg producers they 
stand in the front rank, laying the year around. In color eggs are white, 
and medium size. Chicks grow quite fast and mature very early. Pullets 
often begin laying at four months old. They are very small feeders, and 
bear confinement in small enclosures remarkably well. 

For laying qualities and beauty they stand on their own merits and can- 
not be over-estimated. Hens will weigh from three to four and one-half 
pounds; cocks from four to five and one-half pounds. 

Eggs, $2.00 per 15; $3.50 per 30; $5.00 per 45; $8.00 per 100. single 
birds, $3.00; pair, $6.00; trio, $8.00; pen, 1 male and 4 females, $12.00; 
L male and 10 females, $25.00. 



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Black Minorcas 



The Black Minorca is a well-established breed of English fowls, belong- 
ing to the Spanish varieties, and, wherever brei, are considered a valuable 
breed are hardy both as fowls and chicks^ easily raised, mature early, and 
pullets commence laying when very young. They are non-sitters, small 
eaters, splendid foragers, and without doubt very profitable. Their adapt- 
ability to all soils and places, whether in confinement or allowed unlimited 
range, makes them very popular and suitable to the city fancier as well as 
the farmer. Their plumage is a pure black with a green or metallic luster. 
Their legs are nice and smooth and medium length. The chief and striking 
ornament of the cock is his comb, which is very large, single, straight as an 
arrow, and evenly serrated; has a large flowing tail, carried somewhat high. 
My stock of this variety is simply first class, the best I could get, regardless 
of price. Eggs, $2.00 per fifteen; $3.50 per thirty; $5.00 per forty-five; 
$8.00 per 100. Single birds, $3.00; pairs, $6.00; trios, $8.00; pen, one male 
and ten females, $25.00. 



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Houdans 



Houdans in form are square built, very much like the Wyandottes, a 
long body and full breast. The Houdan is a French fowl, having been in- 
troduced in this country in the early sixties from France. A few of the 
many points of true excellence it possesses are these: 

1 Quick to grow and feather as a chick, making broilers as soon as the 
Wyandottes, Rocks or Brahma. 

2. Fertility of eggs, nearly every one producing a chick under fav- 
orable conditions. 

3. Early laying pullets. 

4. Great productiveness of the females; hens three to five years old lay 
as well as when they are young. 

5. Largeness of its egg and the pure white shell. 

6. Ease of confinement and perfect contentment in restricted quarters. 

7. Perfect quality as a table fowl both as to flavor of flesh and the very 
small percentage of waste in dress being only one-eighth part. 

8. Hardy of constitution, adapting themselves to all kinds of climates 
and conditions. 

9. Small eaters. 

10. Good winter layers, when given any kind of decent care and attention. 

Surely these qualities are enough to entitle the Houdan to better recogni- 
tion for really there is no better bred in this country or any other. I am 
breeding the Rigg strain and selected my breeding stock with great care, 
and I do not think it can be surpassed in this country. Eggs, $2.00 per fif- 
teen; $3.50 per thirty; $5.00 per forty-five; $9.00 per 100. Single birds, 
$3.00; pair, $6.00; trio, $8.00; pen, one male and four females, $12.00; one 
male and ten females, $25.00. 



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Mammoth Bronze Turkeys 



The Mammoth Bronze turkey is the acknowledged king of all turkeys. 
Plumage of the male, on back and breast, is a brilliant bronze hue, which 
glistens in the sunlight like burnished gold. Wing coverts are a beautiful 
rich bronze, the feathers terminating in a wide bronze band across the wings 
when folded, and separated from the primaries by a glossy black, ribbon-like 
mark, formed by the ends of the coverts. Tail — each feather is irregularly 
penciled with narrow bands of light brown, and ending in a broad black 
band with a wide edging of a dull white or gray. In the female the entire 
plumage is similar to that of the male but the colors are not so brilliant or 
clearly defined, and the edging of the feathers is generally a dull white or 
gray. 

The Mammoth Bronze is the hardiest of all turkeys, and the most exten- 
sively raised of any breed. They are good layers, many claiming them to lay 

over 100 eggs in one season 
However, there are excep- 
tions in all things, but it is 
no unusual occurrence for a 
turkey hen to lay fifty eggs 
during hatching season, say 
from April 1st to July 1st. 
Most turkeys do not lay af- 
ter the first of July. 




Owing to the great difference in size and the market price of turkeys, it 
is impossible for us to quote a straight price. It is always better to write 
for prices on turkeys. There is so much difference in the size and quality 
of them. The following quotations will give you an idea what the price will 
be. Large toms, $7.00 to $10.00; turkey hens, $5.00 to $6.00. Will quote 
prices on larger numbers on application. Eggs, $3.00 per nine; $6.00 per 
eighteen; $8.50 p»r twenty-seven. 



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White Holland Turkeys 



White Holland Turkeys are of German origin and are little smaller than 
the Mammoth Bronze, which are so well and favorably known. They are 
very handsome and are considered by many to be the hardiest of all turkeys. 
They are very rapidly getting to the front, and as egg producers they have 
no equal. My turkeys are noted for their splendid shape and enormous 
size, and I feel confident if any breeder can satisfy you, I can. 

As turkeys do not begin laying until about April 1st I am often obliged 
to hold mixed early orders. Customers should state when ordering whether 
they want other eggs shipped at once or wait until all can be sent together. 

Owing to the great difference in size and the market price of turkeys, 
it is impossible for us to quote a straight price. It is always better to 
write for prices on turkeys. There is so much difference in the size and 
quality of them. The following quotations will give you an idea what the 
prices will be: Large toms, $7.00 to $10.00; turkey hens, $5.00 to $6.00. 
Will quote prices on larger numbers on application. Eggs, $3.00 per nine; 
$6.00 per eighteen; $8.50 per twenty-seven. 



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Indian 

Runner 

Ducks 




Indian Runner ducks are making more friends all the time. From the 
day they were introduced into this country down to the present time they 
have added to their reputation as the best laying fowls of any breed ever 
introduced to the poultrymen of any country. They are not as large as Pe- 
kins or Rouens and are not recommended as a market duck, although they 
produce very finely flavored, fine-fibered flesh which is more sweet and palat- 
able than that of any other water fowl. It is as egg-machines that they 
are most highly esteemed. They lay a large egg — about as large as a Min- 
orca egg — of a delicate pearly white almost the color of a lady's finger nail. 
These eggs are of the finest flavor and in most markets sell for two or three 
cents a dozen more than eggs from hens and they are worth it on account of 
their large size. These ducks have been called "the Leghorns of the duck 
family" because of their great egg production. It is not uncommon for an 
Indian Runner duck to lay 200 eggs in a year and nearly every one will lay 
from 150 to 180. They lay at all seasons and produce eggs late in the fall 
and early in the spring. They are almost absolutely noiseless and do not 
deafen the family with the loud quacking that is characteristic of other 
ducks. They are very lively, running like a plover, instead of waddling as 
other ducks, and are the best kind of foragers. At the same time they en- 
dure small yards better than any other waterfowl. They are small eaters, 
healthy, never troubled with insect enemies, roup or any of the diseases of 
other fowls. They hatch readily and once hatched it is pretty safe to count 
on raising them. For clean profit there is no other breed of fowls that will 
compare with them. They are becoming very popular and the poultryman 
who gets a start now will soon find it hard to supply the demand for breeding 
stock. 

I have some very fine ones this year and can sell eggs from good laying 
strains at $2.00 per 11; $3.50 per 22; $5.00 per 33. I will sell eggs in 100 
lots for $10.00. Stock, single birds, $3.00; pairs, $6.00; trios, $8.00; one 
male and four females, $12.00. 



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Mammoth Imperial Pekin Ducks 



The Best Duck Raised. 



The Pekin variety, above all others, seems to meet the market want best. 
They are the most popular as well as the most profitable duck we have in 
this country. They are very large, creamy white, laying from 100 to 150 
eggs each season. They are, as a rule, very easy to raise, mature quickly, 
and are the leading variety for market; do not require water except for 
drinking. Pekin ducks are, as a rule very healthy, not being subject to many 
of the diseases that poultry are heir to. The demand for Pekin was never 
so large as during the past year, thus proving their popularity, and that peo- 
ple realize that there is money in duck culture. I have taken great pains 
in selecting my breeders, and have been trying to improve them by increasing 
depth and of keel and forepart of bodies. My breeding birds are, as a whole, 
very deep bodied. This type of ducks will be the plumpest and most attrac- 
tive when dressed. When mating breeding ducks in November and Decem- 
ber, you will provide a drake for every five ducks; later in the season a 
drake may have six or seven ducks. 

In conclusion, allow me to say that Pekin ducks finer than mine do not 
grow. Better than those I offer have not yet been produced. The blood 
of the Rankin and Hallock stock is in the veins of my Pekins. It is blue 
blood sure enough, for there is nothing better or purer. Single birds $3.00; 
pairs, $5.00; trios, $7.00; pen, one male and four females. $10.00. Eggs 
$1.50 per eleven; $3.00 per twenty-two; $4.50 per fifty; $8.00 per 100, 



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Toulouse Geese 



The Toulouse Geese are a purely English breed. Both male and female 
are very massive in proportion. The bill and feet are dark orange color, 
head, neck and back a dark gray, breast light gray, but descending lighter 
till beyond the- legs to the tail they are pure white. The combination of 
color presents a very attractive appearance. 

Both male and female are uniform in color, being alike to a feather. 
They live to a great old age, some have reported them living and doing well 
at the age of thirty years. Goose raising is very profitable, as they need no 
grain in the summer when they can have plenty of grass to feed on, and are 
small feeders in winter. Now, while the expense is so light to keep them 
and you can, on the other hand, pick their feathers four times in one season, 
making about two pounds of feathers from one goose, which is worth from 
$1.00 to $1.50, besides the young you can raise, makes them very profitable. 
We have a fine, large flock, and can furnish you with choice stock and eggs. 

Eggs, per seven, $2.00; per fourteen, $3.50; twenty-one, $5.00. Single 
birds, $3.50; pairs, $7.00; trios, $9.00; pen, one male and four females, 
$15.00. 



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A Typical Group of My Squab Breeding Homers, Such as are Raised on the 

Crescent Poultry Farm. 



Rearing Squabs for Profit 



There is Big Money in Raising Squabs for Market. 
This Book Gives Full Instructions for Begin- 
ning the Business. Read and Learn 
How to Make Large Profits 
From a Small Invest- 
ment. 

The breeding of squabs for market is a comparatively new business in 
this country, but it has grown to large proportions and the demand for 
squabs is so great that the supply does not keep up with it. 



Squabs Take the Place of Game 

In nearly every state, game birds are becoming so scarce that it has been 
found necessary to make laws prescribing that these birds shall not be 
hunted except for a few weeks at a stated time in the year and many birds 
are protected the year through. This is a wise provision of the law-makers 
and should be strictly enforced, because no one desires to see the destruction 
of quail, grouse, pheasant and other game birds, no matter how well the 
epicures of the cities like them for food. 

The squab has come in to more than fill the place of the disappearing 
game birds. Its flesh is the most tender and delicately flavored of any meat 
food which can be found and once eaten, the appetite for its is fixed and the 
demand for it constant. This is why there is such a strong demand for squabs 
«?— the appetite for them is growing. 



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What Are Squabs? 



Squabs are young pigeons, which are sent to market just as soon as they 
are full grown, which is when they are about four weeks old. Some squabs 
get their full size in a little less than four weeks and some not till after 
they are two or three days older, but the average squab is ready for market 
at four weeks of age. 

At this time the squab is heavier than it ever will be again, as the parents 
feed tneir young so much that they grow to be very fat and plump. 



Squab Breeding Requires but Small Space 



One of the advantages of squab breeding is that it can be carried on in a 
very small space. Fifty pairs of squabs which will produce $100 worth of 
squabs in a year, may be kept in the back yard on a town lot and have 
plenty of room. A house ten feet square is large enough for fifty birds and 
a "fly" outside need only be 10x16 feet to give the birds all the room they 
need for exercise. 



Every Month Produces 



A pair of pigeons breed once a month for ten months in the year. They 
raise two squabs at a time and in a flock of fifty pairs there will be squabs 
for sale every month in the year. In fact the squabs as they come to market 
age will be coming in every week and sqiiab-raisers make it a rule to send 
squabs to market once a week. 

When the squabs are four weeks old the parent birds force them out of 
the nest and after that pay but little attention to them. The young bird, 
which was so fat and plump when turned out to help itseli, grows thin 
while it is learning to eat and its flesh solidifies and never after will it be as 
heavy as it was the day it was started out for itself. This characteristic of 
pigeons gives the squab-breeder a regular income every week in the year 
and he has his money distributed so he can use it when he needs it. The 
income from the pigeons pays expenses as soon as they are made and keeps 
the business on its feet all the time. 



Rearing Squabs 



A vacant corner in a stable, or the loft of a stable, or an unused outhouse 
may be utilized for the breeding of squabs. I know of good flocks of squab- 
breeding pigeons which are kept in a loft of a stable with a fly wired in on 
the roof, so they do not occupy a foot of ground except what the stable 
stands on. In a southern city the landlord of a great hotel has a "pigeon- 
farm" on the flat roof of his hotel and there raises all the squabs he needs 
for his table and he uses a great many of the delicate birds. 



Pigeons Feed Themselves 



The squab-raiser does not need to bother feeding his pigeons, as he would 
feed chickens. He puts feed and water in the house and the pigeons help 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 69 



themselves. Many pigeon-breeders have a feed-hopper in the house and fill 
it as it becomes empty, paying no more attention to the feeding of the birds, 
but I do not recommend this plan. I have found that it is best to feed 
pigeons twice a day, but this takes only a few minutes. 

Pigeons build their own nests, and feed their own young. Boxes are nailed 
to the sides of the house or regular nest boxes are built and tobacco stems 
or straw is put in the house. The pigeons will then build their own nests 
and feed their young without further help from the owner. 



How Pigeons Feed Their Yound 



Pigeons are rather curious in their habits. The parent birds take turns 
sitting. The hens sit from four in the afternoon until ten the next morning 
and the cocks sit during the time from ten until four. When the young 
are hatched, the parent birds both feed them. They eat the grain and par- 
tially digest it. It then becomes a thick milky fluid which is called pigeon's 
milk." The old bird opens its mouth and the young one puts its beak into 
the mouth of the parent. Then the old bird, by a peculiar jerking motion 
of the head and neck, "pumps" the pigeon's milk into the crop of the young 
one. When first hatched the young pigeon is but a little ball of down the 
size of the end of one's thumb, but the old birds feed them so faithfully that 
they grow amazingly and get to full size in four weeks, by which time 
another pair of young have been hatched for which the old birds must care. 



Two Nests for Each Pair 



Because pigeons breed so rapidly and always have one pair to raise while 
they are hatching another pair, it is necessary to provide two nest boxes 
for each pair. These nest boxes are shown in the cut or in their place the 
boxes used for packing canned goods may be used, one of these boxes making 
two nests when divided by a partition. Orange and lemon boxes, having a 
partition already in them, make good pigeon nest boxes. 



The Kind of Feed 



Pigeons are grain eaters and do not require green stuff or meat. They 
will eat a head of lettuce once in a while, but they should not be given this 
except occasionally when it serves as a variety. They are fed on cracked 
corn, red wheat, kaffir corn, millet seed and Canada peas, with a little hemp 
seed once a week. Those who live where they can get broken rice cheaply 
will find this is a good feed for pigeons. 



Plans for Houses 



I give a plan for a cheap pigeon-house in connection with this. I have 
just published a book on pigeon-raising which gives all the details. This 
book is the most complete guide to pigeon-raising that has ever been pub- 
lished and will be sent to any one on receipt of 50c. I prepay postage to any 
place on earth. 



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A Business for Anyone 



I would say that the business may be carried on by any one from a boy 
of fifteen to an old man who has retired from the heavier work of life. 
Women and girls make good pigeon-breeders as there is no heavy or hard 
work connected with the business. In the great spuab-producing districts 
of New Jersey, almost every family raises squabs. Professional men, shop 
workers, retired farmers, boys and girls, women who must depend upon 
themselves, school teachers, clerks, physicians, lawyers, in fact people from 
every walk in life, have a squab-breeding plant in the back yard and sell 
their birds to the dealers who come around every week or ship them to 
Philadelphia or New York. One man past seventy-five years of age makes 
a fine living from squab-raising, using only two city lots. A job printer and 
his wife keep two thousand birds in the back yard of their home and make 
more money from the pigeons than they do from the printing business. The 
manager of the factory keeps a big flock of pigeons and makes them very 
profitable, taking care of the factory at the same time. And so it goes, 
squabs everywhere and thousands of dollars coming in every week from the 
products of the pigeon lofts. 



The Demand Becoming Universal 



A few years ago the principal markets for squabs were found in the big 
cities of the east. Now the demand is growing everywhere. In Omaha, 
Kansas City, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Denver, and in hundreds of smaller towns, 
squabs are becoming a regular part of the food supply. One man in Cali- 
fornia has been obliged to increase his business until he now keeps 60,000 
pigeons in his lofts and sells all his squabs as fast as he can produce them. 
A boy in Illinois began with a few pigeons and now keeps three thousand 
and has regular customers for every squab he can produce. Wherever a 
beginning is made in squab-raising a demand springs up and grows more 
rapidly than the supply, because there is nothing which entirely takes the 
place of squabs as a table delicacy. 



The Profits of the Business 



The raising of squabs is a very profitable business. A pair of pigeons 
can be kept a year for a dollar or less. With good management a pair of 
pigeons will produce at least a dozen squabs in a year and some breeders get 
sixteen from a pair of breeding birds. Say the average is a dozen squabs to 
the pair of pigeons. These will sell for $3 to $6 a dozen according to the 
time of year, but we will say that they average $4 a dozen the year around. 
This leaves $3 clear profit on each pair of pigeons, after paying for the feed. 
Is there any other business in which as much money can be made for the 
same amount invested? Fifty pairs of pigeons will produce enough squabs 
in a year to pay for themselves and for the house they are kept in, and a 
pair of pigeons will keep right on breeding regularly for seven or eight years. 

I know of an old man seventy-six years old who takes charge of 2,000 
pigeons, feeding and caring for them and doing all the work except killing 
and picking them. He lives in a town and makes about $1,000 a year, al- 
though of advanced age. 

I know a young lady employed in an office in a suburban town, who has 
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as she earns in the office. She feeds the birds herself and looks after the 
matings, hiring a boy to do the cleaning of the house and a woman to 
pick the birds she has selected for market, the boy helping by killing and 
packing. All this is done in a little back yard, where about a dozen chickens 
could be kept. 

I know of a lady near a western city who has cleared more than $2,000 
in four years keeping pigeons and selling squabs, all the time working in 
an office. She hires a man now and is on the road to a comfortable com- 
petence, just because she took a fancy to some pigeons and wanted something 
with which to piece out her income. She has no trouble selling all the 
squabs she can raise at $4 a dozen and if she would quit office work she 
could sell every one of her squabs for breeders at better prices than she gets 
for them for food. 



Beginning With Little Capital 



Any one can begin the pigeon business with a few dollars capital if he 
is willing to start low down and grow up with the business. Of course 
where one has money to buy a good-sized stock at first it is best to start this 
way, but where only a small sum in money is available, the start must be 
on a small scale. This has some advantages, for the one who begins with a 
few birds and grows up with them will gradually pick up a trade which will 
grow with his business and in the end he will have experience and customers 
and be able to spread out on a large scale. 

Say one begins with twenty-five pairs of pigeons, and they can be kept 
in a cheap house or in a stable or outhouse. The fly will only cost a few 
dollars. It is made by setting posts eight feet high in the ground to enclose 
a space say ten by sixteen feet. These posts are then covered with ordinary 
two-inch mesh poultry netting making a pen with an eight-foot fence around 
it. The top is now covered with the same poultry netting and this makes a 
big cage. Such a fly is big enough for fifty pairs of birds. 

The beginner now begins to raise squabs. All the largest and best are 
saved for future breeding and the small, undesirable ones, are sold in the 
market. These small ones will bring in enough money to pay for feed and 
the flock will increase in numbers very rapidly. I know of one flock of about 
three hundred pairs in the state of New York, which have bred in three 
years from an original investment of twenty pairs of breeding birds. Squabs 
begin breeding at about six months of age, so they increase very rapidly 
from year to year. 

Even if only ten pairs are bought to begin with, a big flock can be raised 
from them in two or three years and the foundation of a big business built 
up. Many who have started out with the intention of raising squabs for 
market have found such a demand for pigeons for breeding stock that this 
has taken all their birds as fast as they came to breeding age. No business 
promises more for the man or woman who has saved a few dollars and wants 
to make these dollars grow rapidly. 



Keokuk, Iowa, Aug. 9, 1909. 

Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — Out of the last lot (35) 
Houdan eggs you sent me, I got a 
very fine hatch. I got four eggs 
broken and have 17 good strong chicks 
and 10 more that were smothered un- 
der the hens as it was the hottest day 
of the year, so I must give you credit 
for 27 chicks out of 31 eggs, a fine 
record. Many thanks for a square 
deal. Yours truly, 

C. J. SPRING, 
319 S. 12th St. 



Birmingham, Ala., May 3, 1909. 

Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — Just a postal to let you 
know of what success I had in last 
shipment of eggs received from you. 
Out of the 34 eggs I have taken off 
34 of the finest and healthiest little 
fellows I ever saw. I guess that is 
hatching some. I certainly know 
where to buy eggs when in the market 
for some again. Thanking you very 
much, I am, 

Very truly, 

I. C. WAGGONER. 



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09 

9 


H 

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*0l 



It is not necessary to build fancy houses for pigeons. The above illust- 
ration shows the style of a good cheap house, which can be built any length 
desired The bird© would do just as well in a house with a shed roof on 
but it does not look quite so well as a hip roof. Each room is 10x12 and it 
will hold 50 pairs and give them lots of room, some breeders only allow 
8x10 feet for 50 pairs. Make the fly 8 feet high and 20 or 30 feet long cov- 
ering top and bottom with 2-inch mesh poultry netting. 



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My Breeding Stock 



I only took up pigeons because so many of my customers asked me to 
tell them where to get birds to raise squabs. I did not feel like recommend- 
ing birds of which I know nothing, so I concluded to begin raising pigeons 
myself and supply the demand which was made on me. My pigeons origi- 
nated from Belgian stock but are not imported birds. I find that after birds 
are imported it takes a long time to get them acclimated and at work and 
many of them become weak. So I do not deal in imported pigeons at all. 
My stock is descended from the true Belgian Homers, but it is an American 
bred stock which has been selected for its vigor and good working qualities. 
My stock raises big, plump, light-colored squabs such as bring the highest 
price in the market. 

Pigeons must be sold in pairs as they mate for life and remain true to 
each other as long as both live. I put them in light crates, so they will go 
by express to any part of the country in perfect safety. I send out only 
selected mated pairs which may be depended upon to produce plump and 
fat squabs such as will command .the best prices. The one who buys pigeons 
of me and gives them proper attention may look forward to making a profit 
of from $2 to $3 a pair for seven or eight years after they are bought, as 
my stock is healthy and vigorous, ready to go to work, and they produce as 
many squabs in a year as any stock in this country. 

Markings do not count in squab-breeding pigeons. What we want is 
vigor and stock which will produce the heaviest squabs. Color markings 
have nothing to do with this. 



PRICE LIST 

Mated Mammoth Homers and Special Large Matings 
Mammoth Homers 



Mated Mammoth Homers 



SINGLE PAIR 

THREE PAIR 

FIVE PAIR 

TEN PAIR 

TWENTY-FIVE PAIR 
FIFTY PAIR . 



Special Large Matings Mam- 
moth Homers 



SINGLE PAIR $ 

THREE PAIR 

FIVE PAIR 

TEN PAIR 

TWENTY-FIVE PAIR 

FIFTY PAIR 



2.25 

6.00 

8.50 

16.50 

40.00 

75.00 



ONE HUNDRED PAIR 140.00 



. .$ 2.00 
5.00 
7.50 
15.00 
. . 35.75 
. . 66.00 
ONE HUNDRED PAIR 126.50 

In order to supply my trade to the best advantage I find it necessary to 
divide my mammoth homers into two classes. 

The one to include my GENERAL MATINGS and the other made up of 
my EXTRA LARGE MATINGS, carefully selected for their size and shape 
from my entire plant. The birds in either class are made up of superior 
specimens as I am especially exacting in this matter and allow no birds to 
find their way into my breeding pens that I cannot recommend in every 
way. The EXTRA LARGE MATINGS on the theory that "like produces 
like" may be depended upon to produce heavier and finer squabs — the kind 
that bring more money in the market because they weigh more to the dozen 
— hence I charge more for them. They consume more of my time in their 
selection and perfection and they bring their owners more money in the 
same given time by the extra value of the squabs so they are worth more 
money as producers. I find the time I spend around my pigeon loft the 
most interesting hours devoted to my business. The development, feeding 
and growth of the young and the training, care and selection of the full 
grown birds are all enjoyable because they provide a means for that phase 
of character in each of us that finds expression in wanting to be doing some- 
thing — especially when the increased revenue to be thus obtained makes the 
effort so well worth while. 



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The above illustration shows style of a home made nest box. Bowls are 
shown but should not be used. Nests are 12 inches square. By making the 
nests with a removable four-inch cleat in front so they can be easily cleaned 
out, you have one of the cheapest and best nests that can be had for your 
pigeon loft. 



Pigeon Supplies 



I could use several pages in illustrating the different supplies and ap- 
pliances that might be used around pigeon lofts, yet the most of them are 
worthless, not practical, but a needless expense, and would be used only a 
short time and then thrown away. 

Nappies, or nest bowls, I do not advise for use. They are nice to look at 
in pictures, but I find the pigeons won't build in them if they can get any- 
thing else to use. The greatest disadvantage in using the nest bowl is this, 
a great many squabs are lost by crawling out over the top of them and being 
unable to get back thus chill to death. Another great loss is sustained by 
eggs being rolled or thrown out and broken by the pigeons when shifting or 
moving about in them. The losses in this respect are great. I gave them a 
trial but soon discarded them; then went to looking around to see if other 
large pigeon breeders used them, and found they had nearly all discarded 
them. 

The nests that I have described in my pigeon book, also in cut shown on 
this page, you can make yourself at a very little expense to you. You will 
find them in the end a great deal better and more profitable than the nest 
bowls. 

Drinking fountains are pracical and all right, and should be used. Liquid 
disinfectants such as Lice Killer are good, and should be used around every 
loft. About all you need except these I have mentioned are the utensils that 
are ordinarily used around the farm for taking care of poultry. 



Drinking Fountains 



There are a variety of drinking fountains on 
the market. I have picked out the best and 
can furnish you style like cut. They are hand- 
made, of the very best quality of galvanized 
iron, and are so constructed that they are very 
easily cleaned, and not damaged by freezing. 
Price, half gallon, 40c; gallon, 50c; two gal- 
lon, 65c 

Foy's Lice Killer or Liquid Disinfectant for pigeon lofts. One of the very 
best made and guaranteed to keep the lofts free from lice and parasites for 
three months after its use. It should be applied with a brush for best re- 
sults. Price 75c per gallon. 




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Roup — The Worst Poultry Disease 



Roup is the worst disease that poultry can be afflicted with, and one of 
the worst things about it is that any flock is likely to be attacked with it, as 
it does not depend on exposure to other fowls afflict- 
ed with the disease, or infection that comes by way of 
the air. It is likely to follow exposure to drafts, cold 
rains or colds that come from any other cause. Colds 
or sneezing in the flock should not be neglected a 
day. Colds may be followed by any of the several 
various forms of roup. Roup may assume a catar- 
rhal form and result in closing the nostrils or a 
swelling near one or both eyes, which often becomes 
as large as a hickory-nut, and in the end causes death 
or results in permanent deformity. It may become 
like diphtheria and cause cankers in the mouth and 
throat, or it may go deeper and destroy the lung tis- 
sue and result in certain death. 

Roup may be known by the offensive smell it gives 
out, when it is in the form of catarrh or diphtheria, 
or by the swelling of the head. After it once finds a 
victim in a flock, the whole flock may soon become 
infected, as a cold which has been changed into roup 
is highly infectious. So far, only one certain rem- 
edy has been found. This remedy is 

Frank Foy's Roup Cure. 

This will cure roup in all its forms and prevent it 

if used in the flock occasionally. It contains nothing 

of a poisonous nature and is a strong tonic, building 

up the system and making the blood rich and pure, 

giving the fowl strength to throw off the disease. 

Frank Foy's Roup Cure is the best disinfectant that 

can be used. A solution of it will kill foul odors and make the air of a sick 

room pure and sweet. For this reason it cures roup, because its use kills 

all disease germs at once and stays the progress of the disease. 

A 50-cent package makes twenty-five or thirty gallons of medicine, and 
it is the cheapest and most effective cure for this very common disease that 
has ever been used. Give it to the hens whenever they show the least sign 
of a cold and it will prevent roup from appearing. Give it once or twice a 
week^ in the drinking water, and it will prevent roup and other germ 
diseases. Full directions on every package. The price is 50 cents and $1.00 
per bottle, postpaid. For ten cents extra I will register the package and 
there will be no possible danger of loss. Do not fail to keep a bottle of this 
on hand to use at the first sign of danger. 




Seneca Falls (R. No. 3), N. Y., April 29, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Your Roup Cure is king of Roup Cures. I would not be without it. I 
find it just as recommended, and I say three cheers for Frank Foy's Roup 
Cure, which is O. K. Very truly, 

MRS. CARRIE B. TALLMAN. 



Portland, N. D., March 24, 1909. 
Mr.. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — The pigeons we bought 
of you are elegant birds. They are 
hatching and rearing squabs all the 
time and have been all winter. No 
one makes a mistake in buying birds 
from you. Respectfully, 

EARL FLADBLAND. 



Houston, Texas, Feb. 25, 1909. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I have to-day recived the 
five pair of pigeons wnich you sent 
me and am well pleased with them. I 
wish to thank you for your promptness 
in filling this order. 

Yours truly, 

A. H. GORDON. 



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To Druggists and Dealers 



Frank Foy's Roup Cure is a steady seller and gives perfect satisfaction. I 
make a liberal trade discount to those who desire to keep it in stock and 
will be glad to hear from any one who deals in poultry supplies and 
remedies. 



Frank Foy's Electric Lice Killer 



It is safe to say that many failures in the poultry business are caused by 
lice alone. Now if you will follow my plan, you will have no trouble what- 
ever to effectually rid your fowls and place of 
lice, mites, and all insect pests. Best results are 
obtained by using both Electric Lice Killer and 
Insect Powder. If the roosts and dropping boards 
are painted two or three times a year with Foy's 
Electric Liquid Lice Killer I will guarantee no 
lice, mites, bedbugs and other insects staying on 
the surface you have painted. 

First clean your hen houses by painting roosts, 
nest boxes or any wood-work fowls stand or sit 
on. If you desire to kill the lice on fowl® by fu- 
migation, it can be done by making a box with a 
false bottom consisting of narrow strips that will 
keep the birds out of the lice killer in the bottom 
at the same time letting the fumes come up from 
below after painting the bottom of the box and 
putting a false bottom in to keep them off of the 
liquid. It will take 10 to 20 minutes to kill all 
the lice, it will depend on how warm the weather 
is at the time. Cover the top of the box with a blanket and look at them oc- 
casionally to see that the fumes are not getting too strong. In a few minutes 
lice will crawl out on the ends of the feathers and die. Some prefer to use 
this method, others dust their fowls with Insect Powder and use the Lice 
Killer to keep the house free from lice. I can not recommend this lice killer 
too highly when used for the extermination of all insects and mites of every 
kind. It kills with a certainty that makes its work unfailing. It not only 
kills the living insects, but it is certain death to all the insect eggs which 
come within its action. If roosts and dropping boards are painted three times 
a year with this lice killer there will be no further trouble with lice and 
mites of any kind. Full directons will be found on every can. Sold in gal- 
lon and one half gallon cans. I recommend the purchase of gallon cans, 
as the express charges will be no lighter than on a half gallon. Half gallon 




cans 50 c. 
$12.50. 



gallon cans 75 c; five gallon cans $3.00; fifty gallon barrels 



Lovelady, Texas, April 3, 1909. 

Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — Out of the sitting of 
Hamburg- eggs I got ten strong chicks, 
and am well pleased with them. The 
Wyandottes I got of you have more 
than paid for themselves already. I 
would not take anything for either of 
them. I shall place another order 
with you soon. Very truly, 

P. H. LEAVERTON. 



Louisville, Ky., April 5, 1909. 

Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I want to acknowledge 
receipt of the basket containing 203 
eggs for incubator, and to congratu- 
late you on the good condition in 
which they arrived, only three being 
broken. Thanking you for the atten- 
tion you gave this matter, 
Tours very truly, 

AUGUSTA C. HONE. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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Foy's Poultry Tonic and E^d Stimulant 




I have personally experimented for years to pro- 
duce a perfect poultry tonic, one that would stimu- 
late egg production and keep the fowls in good con- 
dition, and have succeeded in producing one that 
will he found invaluable to every poultry-raiser. 
Combining, as it does, these sterling qualities, it is 
designed to keep fowls in good, healthy condition 
when combined with other foods, and acts as a 
mild tonic, keep fowls healthy. It is flesh form- 
ing and stimulates egg production, improves diges- 
tion, creates red combs; in fact fowls soon take on 
new life and vigor. 

This tonic is very valuable for molting hens or 
any fowls that do not appear to be doing well and 
need something to tone up the system. 

It not only keeps the fowls in good condition 
but will increase the egg yield to a remarkable ex- 
tent, if used according to directions. 

This preparation is composed of pure drugs — no 
bulky filler being used. Price reduced to 25 cents; 
postage 6 cents. 



Crescent Insect Powder 



For Killing Lice on Poultry, Animals and Plants. 

Live chicks and matured fowls, equally as good 
for any kind of live stock or plants. It will kill 
lice, not drive them away or put them to sleep for 
a few hours, BUT KILL them so they will stay 
dead. This remedy is in a powdered form and can 
be applied or dusted on the fowls, chicks, nests, 
or other places where vermin have collected. 
FOY'S INSECT POWDER is made very strong 
but harmless to young chicks or any animal life, 
but sure DEATH to all kinds of poultry vermin. 
When using Crescent Insect Powder don't forget 
to paint your roosts with Electric Lice Killer. If 
roosts are painted with it two or three times a 
year you will never be bothered with mites, lice 
or other insects in your hen house where you 
paint it. It is useless to kill the lice on the 
fowls without first cleaning them out of the hens 
houses. Crescent Insect Powder kills lice as 
quick en animals and plants as it will on poultry. 




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Twenty-cne ounce package, 25 cents, by mail, 21 cents extra; 60 ounces, 
60 cents; if by mail add one cent per ounce; registered mail 10 cents extra. 
Special price to dealers in case lots. Case contains 24 twenty-ounce packages. 



Crushed Oyster Shells 



We handle a very superior grade of oyster shells ground to the right size, 
which expert poultrymen agree to be the right size. It is needless for us 
to dwell upon the value of crushed oyster shell for poultry, as nearly every- 
one knows they are very valuable as an egg shell maker and to promote the 
general health of the fowls. 100 pound sack, 75 cents. 



Fowl Cholera— Poultry Plag£ue 




This dreadful disease sometimes breaks out very 
unexpecedly and creates havoc by sweeping off whole 
flocks. It more paricularly affects chickens and tur- 
keys; ducks and geese not seeming to be so liable 
to it. It is a disease that acts quickly, the victim 
dying within a few days, and often within a few 
hours. The most prominent symptoms are diarrhea, 
the droppings being of a sulphur yellow color or hav- 
ing a yellowish green tinge. When this disease makes 
its appearance no delay should be allowed, as it is 
one of the most contagious disease known to poul- 
trymen. 

If your fowls show the thin, yellowish or greenish 
droppings, have pale combs which soon become dark, 
droop their wings, exhibit great thirsty or show any 
of these symptoms, do not delay giving Foy's Cholera 
Cure, which will arrest the disease and cure the ones 
afflicted with it. 

Put up in 50 cent and $1.00 boxes, by mail; regis- 
tered for 1 cents extra. 



Bowel Trouble in Little Chicks 



It has been attributed to overheating, chilling, piling up in the brooder, 
and often starts without any noticeable cause. There is no better remedy 
than Foy's Cholera Cure, after the disease appears. The best way to treat 
this disease is to begin before it appears. Use Foy's Cholera Cure occa- 
sionally and the disease will not appear, unless the chicks are neglected in 
some way and allowed to become too warm or too cold in the brooder. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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Cholera 



To Druggists and Dealers. 

I make a very liberal trade discount to all who keep poultry supplies and 
remedies and who desire to handle my poultry remedies. Write for terms. 
My remedies are steady sellers as they give perfect satisfaction and be- 
come staples in every locality where they are introduced. 



Care of Youn^ Chicks 



This is a problem that I have given much thought and careful study. Do 
not commence to feed chicks until they are about thirty-six hours old, then 
do not feed them sloppy food; follow nature and give them dry food. Have 
you ever .noticed how much healthier chicks are that make their living in 
the fields hunting grain, worms, bugs and insects of all descriptions? Now, 
to be successful in raising chicks in large numbers, we must follow nature 
as near as possible. FOY'S PERFECT CHICK FOOD contains all these 
natural elements and in their proper proportions. This food can be de- 
pended upon to feed incubator chicks or chicks hatched by the natural 
method. 



Foy's Perfect Chick Food 




fiJREPAREJD 'FOFH 
s!|no guarantee" 

BY." Ja.-'SV' 




This food is prepared strictly according to mod- 
ern and scientific methods after years of careful 
experimenting and exhaustive study. It is a com- 
plete balanced ration for young and growing chicks. 
It is a natural food, put up in just the right pro- 
portions to furnish nutriments necessary for health, 
growth and development. It is without question 
one of the best balanced and proportioned rations, 
that we have ever fed. It reduces the mortality to 
a minimum, saving many times its cost, and fre- 
quently the best in the flock. If your young chicks 
are left to roam at will they will pick up a large 
number of seeds ( worms and bugs. This is the 
natural animal food of the chicks. When we raise 
chicks in large numbers we must furnish a perfect 
substitute for this food if we expect success. After 
years of careful study, experimenting and practice, 
I believe we are oflering for sale the most natural 
chick food in the market today. 

Fifty pound sacks, $1.50; 100 pound sacks, 
$2.50. 



Pueblo, Colo., July 3, 1909. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, lowa. 

Dear Sir: — The cock arrived O. K. 
and am well pleased with the bird. He 
Is thoroughly at home and healthy. 
You will hear from me in the near fu- 
ture with a further order. 
Yours truly, 

J. W. RIGHTER. 



Tallmadge, Ohio, April 15, 1909. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I am just writing to tell 
you of the fine work the incubator I 
bought of you is doing. Out of 150 
eggs I got 130 chicks. 1 think that 
pretty good for one who n.'-ver ran an 
insubator before. Yours truly, 

PERRY ZBLNAR. 



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to send a 25 cent piece (well wrapped) one cent stamps are preferred to stamps 
of other denominations. 



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Improved Champion Led Band 




Leg Bands may all look alike, but 
there is a vast difference in the ma- 
terial they are made of. I use noth- 
ing but the very best grade alum- 
inum, which will not tarnish, rust, or 
break. My price on Leg Bands may 
be just a trifle higher than some sell 
for. I will not sell an inferior band 
or use one at any price. 

Held by double lock, it is impossi- 
ble for them to lose off. Made of 
aluminum in two sizes, large size for 
Asiatic class and turkeys, small size 
for Plymouth Rocks and all small 
breeds. Price, postpaid, 25 for 30c, 
50 for 50c, 100 for 75c. 



DIRECTIONS. 

Bend broad part of the band on 

your finger to conform to shape of 

fowl's leg. Put small end through 

loop — draw through until it fits 

loosely on the leg, turn the end back, then bend the two legs over the loose 

end as shown in the cut. Cut off the surplus with shears. 



Led Bands for Pigeons 



I keep a large stock of hand-made Aluminum Leg Bands with "V" joint, 
and heavy enough so they will never lose off the birds when properly put on! 
Edges are well rounded so they will not chafe the legs. 

The bands I sell are all numbered. I can furnish un-numbered bands 
if any one desires them, but the price is the same as the numbered bands. 

Price: 25 for 30c; 50 for 50c; 100 for 80c. 



Crescent Poultry Markers 



The Crescent Poultry Punch is an up-to-date first-class tool, makes a clean cut 

without mutilating the web. This 
punch is made expressly for me, 
and I gaurantee them to give sat- 
isfaction. It is the kind I use on 
the Crescent Poultry Farm. 

■ Price, 25 cents each, postpaid. 




ROUP TESTIMONIAL 

Hiwasse, Ark., April 19, 1909. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — The Roup Cure I ordered 
of you came all O. K. and I find it all 
right. I had two birds that you would 



call severe cases. They could hardly 
hold their heads up. We gave one two 
doses, the other three, and it cured 
them. Very truly, 

JOSEPH EVANS. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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The "Triumph" Caponizing Set 



There is no doubt in the minds of up-to-date poultrymen as to the ad- 
vantages of caponizing. Caponizing does away with the troublesome cock- 
erel, and transforms him into a tranquil, majestic fowl moving at leisure 
about the yard and only growing fatter and heavier every day. The opera- 
tion is very simple, and with a "Triumph Caponizing Set" any boy 12 years 
of age can perform it with safety and thoroughness. A few years ago capon- 
izing was scarcely practiced in the United States at all. Now it has assumed 
gigantic proportions, and is growing with a rapidity that surpasses the most 
sanguine conjectures of its friends. Capons, as anyone knows, sells on the 
market as a rule from three to five cents per pound higher than any other 
chickens. The demand for capons is always good, is steadily growing, and 
at this time a better market is assured the producer in this field than any 
other. Now is the time to get into the caponizing business, and the first 
thing to start right is to buy a "Triumph Caponizing Set." The problem 
of "slips" and the per cent lost in the operation have ever been the points 
of difficulty, and the elements that have cut an important figure in the 
profits to the producer. This difficulty has been overcome by the manu- 
facturers of the "Triumph," and our customers can make no mistake by 
buying one of these sets. 

These instruments are made of the best tool steel and are all nickel- 
plated. Book of instructions is sent free with each set. These Triumpb 
Caponizing Instruments give our customers splendid satisfaction. 

Prices: — 

Set in plush-lined, cloth-covered case $3.00 

Set in polished hardwood box 2.75 

Set in Japanned wood box 2.50 

We pay transportation charges within the United States. 



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to send a 25 cent piece (well wrapped) one cent stamps are preferred to stamps 
of other denominations. 



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POPULAR BOOKS 



FOR 



Poultrymen and Pigeon Fanciers 



A NEW PIGEON BOOK 



r How to Mate and Care for Pigeons, and 
j Especially those which are kept for 
raising Squabs for market 



ALL ABOUT PIGEON BREEDING 





I have just published the most com- 
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upon the market. It begins at the be- 
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feeding, breeding and caring for pigeons, 
raising, dressing, and marketing squabs. 
No detail is neglected. It gives plans 
for squab-breeding houses, flies, feeding 
arrangements and other details of im- 
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pigeons and keep them well; how to 
doctor sick birds and make them well. 

It tells how to mate pigeons, how to 
dress and market squabs, how to And a 
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a practical illustrated mouthly, 32 to 80 pages, brimful of just the informa- 
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FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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PRACTICAL. NON-FREEZING DRINKING FOUNTAINS. 

This drinking fountain is something every 
poultry raiser should have, especially during the 
winter months. It is made of galvanized steel 
and holds three gallons. It is soldered on the 
inside and double seamed. The heater contains 
a small lamp that is perfectly safe which keeps 
the water from freezing and burns but very 
little oil. This fountain also has wattle protect- 
ors which prevents the wattles of the fowls get- 
ting wet and freezing while drinking. It is 
also a great protection to the young fowls, keep- 
ing them from getting into the water and 
drowning. 
Fountain with heater and lamp complete. . .$2.25 





METAL. NESTS CAN BE USED AS 

TRAP NESTS. 

One to four nests, $1.00 each; trap 
attachment 25c extra; one-half dozen 
nests, 80c each; one dozen nests or 
more, $9.00 per dozen. Always add 
25c each if the trap nest attachment 
is desired. This nest is mite proof, 
is sanitary and durable. It is lice 

and mite proof and the screen door prevents rats from getting the brood when 
hatching or other hens from crowding on the nest. 
This is a practical trap nest; there is nothing better. 

BROOD COOP. 

Metal Brood Coops have become 
quite a noted accessory to the suc- 
cessful raising of poultry. They are 
lighter and more sanitary than 
wooden coops, do not harbor lice and 
infectious diseases like the latter, 
can be scalded or burned out with a 
little paper or straw and thus be 
made perfectly sanitary again in a 
few minutes. Rats, minks and weas- 
■ els do not gnaw through them, con- 
sequently they are absolutely ver- 
min proof. 

Our Sanitary Brood Coops are 

made of heavy galvanized iron in 

the knocked-down form, are easily 

put together, and when the breeding season is over can as easily be taken apart 

and stored away in a small place. 

The coop is fitted with two perforated sliding doors and a solid hinged door. 
The perforated sliding doors can be set so chicks can run in and out and hen 
locked in, and at night be closed so rats and minks can't get to the chicks, 
yet give the chicks plenty of fresh air. The solid door can be raised up alto- 
gether to let in the sun, or set so as to act as a hood in case of rainy weather, 
or left down entirely in case of cold weather. 

Price single, each $1.75 

Price half dozen, each 1-65 

Per dozen coops 19.00 




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Geo. N. Varner. 

Waynoke, Okla., May 7, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Poy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I neglected to acknowl- 
edge receipt of the incubator that I 
bought of you early this spring — rush 
of work the cause; and then I wanted 
to see how it would hatch. It has 
proven to be a splendid hatcher, and 
I am well pleased in every way. 
Very truly, 

GEO. N. VARNER. 




Mechanicsville, la., 
Aug. 24, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, 

D'es Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I am so 
well pleased with the 
chicks hatched from 
the eggs purchased 
of you last spring. 
Out of fifteen White 
Wyandotte eggs I 
hatched fourteen 
chickens, and out of 
fifteen White Rock 
eggs got nine chick- 




J. Hazard. 

Kansas City, Kan., Aug. 29, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — I thought I would write 
you and let you know how the incu- 
bator hatched I bought of you. I put 
in 121 eggs, of which 105 proved to be 
fertile, and hatched 92*. strong and 
healthy chickens and two deformed 
ones. I am well pleased with the ma- 
chine and believe it will hatch every 
egg that a hen can. Very truly, 

J. HAZARD, 
1743 Cleveland Ave. 



ens. They all look well and show that 
they are from good stock. 
Very truly, 

ANNA HUBLER. 



Ventura, Cal., March 31, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — The Barred Rock cocker- 
els arrived in good condition. They 
are fine. Think they will make a good 
cross with my hens, as they are also 
good. Very truly, 

MRS. M. FLANAGAN. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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Manville, 111., 
Apr. 25, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, 
Des Moines, la. 
Dear Sir: — Will 
write you in re- 
gard to the incu- 
bator purchased 
from you a short 
time ago. In the 
first place we had 
no experience with 
one and in fact, 
had never exam- 
ined one before we 



set this one up. "We filled it with 
Barred Rock eggs and the hatch came 
off three days ago with 215 healthy 
chicks. I think this was a fine hatch 
and if you have other customers who 
have had better luck, I would like to 
hear from them. I am going to have 
it printed in the local papers and give 
the name of the machine. We are 
certainly satisfied in every respect. I 
remain, 

Very truly, 

A. J. ZEIGLER. 



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to send a 25 cent piece (well wrapped) one cent stamps are preferred to stamps 
of other denominations. 




Hurley, S. D., July 17, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

Dear Sir: — We have taken off five 
hatches from your machines this year. 
Four of chicks and one of ducks and it 
has given entire satisfaction, and can 
say that if anyone goes according to 
directions they can" do as well as we 
have. I will send you a photo of a 
hatch from the 120 egg machine. 
Yours truly, 

G. M. WORMWOOD. 



Simpson, La., April 7, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, Des Moines, Iowa. 

D'ear Sir: — I received my eggs on the 
4th in fine shape, not a one broken. I 
appreciate your honest treatment. As- 
suring you my future business, I beg 
to remain, Tours truly, 

J. A. HARVILLE. 



FRANK FOY, PROPRIETOR 



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DISTANCE CUTS NO FIGURE. NINE 
CHICKS FROM A SITTING. 

New Orleans, La., 
Oct. 20, 1908. 
Mr. F. Foy, Prop., 
Crescent Poultry 

Farm, 
Des Moines, la. 
Dear Sir : — Nine 
strong, healthy 
chicks from the sit- 
ting of eggs, after 
their long journey, 
is doing well 
enough. They are 
one week old and 
doing nicely. May 
it another sitting shortly. 
Respectfully, 

BEN L. ANDERSON. 
11th Prect., Levee Head, Canal St. 




"WONDER AND ADMIRATION 
THE WHOLE STREET." 

Rochester, N. Y., 
Dec. 22, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, 
Des Moines, la. 
Dear Sir: — My Black 
Langshans arrived 
am very much please 
safe and sound. I 
am very much 
pleased with them. I 
think they are very 
fine; they are the on- 
ly pair of that vari- 
ety in the city of 
Rochester. They are the wonder and 
admiration of the whole street. Hop- 
ing that I may have good luck with 
them, I remain, 

Tour friend. 

J. E. CATTON, 

340 Cottage. 




JUST THE SHADE OF BUFF AND 

KIND OF BIRD I YYANTED — CAN 

NOT BE BEAT. 

Fort Wayne, Ind., 
Dec. 11, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, 
Prop., 
Crescent Poultry 
Farm. 
Dear Sir: — Rec'd 
the Buff O. cockerel 
O. K. yesterday 
morning. He is cer- 
tainly a beauty. I 
am more than 
pleased. He is just 
the shade and kind 
a bird I wanted. He 
cannot be beat. His shape and car- 
riage is perfect. 

Thanking you for the kind and per- 
sonal attention given me, I beg to re- 
main, 

Tours truly, 

H. R. GUNDER. 




"THE FINEST BIRD IN NORTH CAR- 
OLINA." 

Jan. 11, 1909. 
With thanks we 
acknowledge receipt 
of the S. L. W. 
cockerel. He shows 
the marks of splen- 
did breeding. I be- 
lieve he is the fin- 
est bird in N. C. We 
have named him 
" Foy. " Thanking 
you for your 
promptness and 
good selection, I re- 
main, 

Very truly, 
M. H. COLE, 
Needmore, N. C. 




"A WELL PLEASED CUSTOMER." 



Prescott, Ariz., 
Oct. 29, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, 
Des Moines, la. 
Dear Sir: — I rec'd 
my chickens all O. 
K. and I think they 
are fine birds. 

Thanks very much 
for them. 

Tours truly, 
MRS W. T. HALL, 
322 So. Granite St. 




"MORE DELIGHTED EACH TIME I 
LOOK AT THEM." 

Cherryvale, Kan., 
Jan. 3, 1909. 
Frank Foy, 
Des Moines, la. 
Dear Sir: — I rec'd 
the peri of Black 
Minorcas Saturday 
in first class shape. 
Will say I am more 
than pleased with 
them, in fact I am 
more delighted each 
time I look at them. 
Am returning crate 
just as it was re- 
ceived. 
Very truly yours, 

MRS. S. DACKERT. 




EGGS PROVE UNUSUALLY FERTILE. 



King City, Mo., 
Sept. 14, 1908. 
Mr. Frank Foy, 

Des Moines, la. 
D'ear Sir: — We re- 
ceived the eggs in 
good condition. 
They proved unus- 
ually fertile, 18 
chicks out of 22 
eggs. They are fine 
and healthy and do- 
ing well. 

Tours for more 
business, 

LENA ANISER. 




Des Moines, Iowa, 19 

Date of this order. 



ORDER SHEET 

To FRANK FOY, Proprietor Crescent Poultry Farm, 

Breeder and Importer of Thoroughbred and Fancy Poultry, Des Moines, 

Please Ship by Express Co. 

Name of Express Company at your station, also name of Railroad if small place. 



Name 

Post Office. 

County 

State 



Express - 

Name of Express Office, if different from Post Office. 



AMOUNT ENCLOSED 

Postal Order $ 

Express Order 

Draft 

Cash 

Total 



Names of Varieties 


Cock 


Cockerel 


Hen 


Pullet 


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When ordering either fows or eggs, if you have a second choice, please name it in your 
order. Sometimes we are unable to supply your wants in some varieties, so that if a second 
choice were made we might favor you with a prompt shipment; otherwise we would be 
gbliged to disappoin you by returning your money. 



QUESTIONS ANI> ANSWKKS 

Q. What is line breeding? 

A. Line breeding is breeding in one line, or within one family. Every fowl 
has in it the possibility of reproducing itself or any of its ancestors, near or 
remote. This quality of reproducing the characteristics of a remote ancestor is 
called "harking back" or "reversion." This means that a bird of this year's 
hatch may resemble its parent, grandparent or some more remote ancestor. It 
we were to breed by crossing the birds of different families it follows that we 
would never know just what we were going to get in the way of chicks. Some 
might be good and others might be very poor culls. It has been found that to 
cross even two strains of line-bred fowls is to often bring out the bad qualities of 
both families, as shown in some remote ancestor. This is because no two 
breeders ever take exactly the same course of selection. For this reason it has 
been found best for a line breeder to confine himself to his own line. Line 
breeding is in-breeding. We are told this leads to deterioration, and it does where 
indiscriminate in-breeding is followed. But where careful selections are made 
it has been proved that the progeny of one pair of fowls may be crossed and 
inter-crossed together year after year with the best results, because as time 
passes the good qualities are preserved, by selecting the best every year, and the 
poor qualities gradually bred out. It is not possible to absolutely breed out the 
tendency to reversion, but this tendency grows weaker every year that line 
breeding, with its careful selection, is practiced. Usually a pen of females of the 
same breeding is mated with a male of equally good breeding. The male of the 
first year is used to head a pen of the pullets of that year, and a cockerel of high 
quality is bred back to the hens of the first year. The third year a male bird 
from the original male is bred to females from the pullets of the original females, 
always selecting the very best specimens for the breeding pen. This course is 
followed year after year, the chicks of each year, which are to be used as breed- 
ers the next year, being hatched from eggs of the very best mating that can be 
selected from the hatch of the previous year. Following this year after year, 
discarding all but the best, a strain which can be relied on to furnish a very 
large percentage of the highest quality is perfected. The beginner who does not 
want to take the trouble to build up a strain of his own can always continue line 
breeding by purchasing his males from the breeder of whom he bought his 
original fowls or eggs. For instance, a beginner who desires to breed the very 
best and breed in line so as to keep on breeding the very best, could buy eggs or 
fowls of the Frank Foy line-bred strains, and the next year buy a cock for his 
private breeding pen from which to hatch chicks for the next year and so on, 
thus securing to himself all the benefits of line breeding, without in any way 
worrying about results or making the mistakes that beginners are liable to make. 

Q. What is the best plan to follow in building a poultry house? 

A. The best plan is the simplest one. A poultry house should be simply a 
box, square or oblong, with plenty of windows in the south side. It should be 
built so as to keep out wind and water, being tight enough to prevent all drafts 
or currents of air. The doors and windows should be closely fitted. The roosts 
and nest boxes should be arranged so they could be taken out without trouble 
when the house is cleaned and whitewashed. "What the hen wants is a house 
that is light, dry and warm enough so she will be comfortable in cold weather. 
Allow four square feet of floor space for each grown fowl; that is, a house eight 
by twelve feet will accommodate twenty-four hens, and give them plenty of room. 
Double the number of hens can roost in such a house if they have free range 
in the daytime. It is best to make separate houses or divide the poultry house 
into rooms so that not more than fifty are in a room. "Where such rooms are 
provided the hens can soon be taught to go to their own house or into their own 
room to sleep. Even when hens sleep in the trees, each one sleeps on the same 
limb every night, and it is but little trouble to teach them to go to their own 
places. 

Q. How can I succeed in the poultry business? 

A. This catalogue tells you a great deal about how I succeeded. Go into it 
as you would into any other business, with a determination to stick to it and 
do the very best you can every day in the year. If you get the right stock to 
start with and take good care of it, success is certain. 

Q. How many fowls can one man take care of? 

A. One man can take care of a thousand hens, if he puts in his time as he 
would at other work. By the time a man has a thousand hens he is usually able 
to take things easy and hire help to do the work while he manages the business 



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